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Position Paper, Prepared in the Department of State, for the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly
SD/A/C.1/370
The Problem of the Independence of Korea: Report of UNCURK (Alternative II—If an Armistice Is Achieved)
the problem
To determine the position which the United States should take in regard to (a) the report of UNCURK, and (b) United Nations machinery for bringing about a free, independent and unified Korea, and, in particular, the future of UNCURK.
recommendations
1. While the report has not yet been circulated, it may be assumed that the report will be unobjectionable, and the United States Delegation will be able to vote to approve it.
2. As to the future of UNCURK, the United States Delegation should be guided by Position Paper SD/A/C.1/368 on United Nations Action on Korea (Alternative II—If an Armistice is Achieved).
[Page 1031]discussion
As indicated in the Position Paper referred to, the future of UNCURK would be reconsidered in the light of the report of the United Nations Delegation which would be appointed to seek a settlement of the Korean problem. If this report is submitted during the Sixth Session of the General Assembly, the United States Delegation to the Assembly will be instructed further as to steps which might be taken in the light of that report in regard to the future of UNCURK. In general, it may be expected that if the United Nations Delegation to be appointed by the General Assembly to seek a Korean settlement succeeds in achieving agreement for such a settlement, that agreement will very likely provide for an acceptable United Nations body for implementing the settlement and UNCURK would have to be replaced or modified in the light of that agreement. If the United Nations Delegation reports failure, the situation so far as the question of unification is concerned would in all probability not be basically different from what it was prior to June 25, 1950, and a body like UNCURK would presumably be continued. Of course, in view of the history and record of UNCURK we would undoubtedly consider replacing it by a new body, generally along the same lines as would pertain if no armistice is achieved. See Position Paper SD/A/C.1/369, The Problem of the Independence of Korea: Report of UNCURK (Alternative I).
The relation of UNCURK to the United Nations Delegation to be appointed by the General Assembly to seek a Korean settlement is also discussed in the position paper on United Nations action in Korea, Alternative II, referred to above.