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[[image:Rusk1.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The document"Rusk documents" by Dean Rusk , 1951]]

The '''Rusk documents''' are the official diplomatic correspondence sent by [[Dean Rusk]], the [[United States]] Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to [[You Chan Yang]], the [[South Korea]]n ambassador to the U.S. The documents show the negotiating position at the time of the U.S. State Department. <br>on the attribution of [[Dokdo]] in drafting the [[Treaty of San Francisco]] (Treaty of Peace with Japan).

== Summary ==

The document rejected South Korea's request to include the islands of [[Jeju island|Quelpart]], Port Hamilton, Dagelet, Dokdo, and Parangdo among the oversea territories that were to be renounced by Japan as a consequence of the peace treaty. <ref>On [[July 19]], [[1951]], the South Korean government sent a document (signed in the name of [[You Chan Yang]]) that requested the U.S.-Britain joint draft of the [[Treaty of San Francisco]] to replace the word "renounces" in Paragraph ''a'', Article Number 2, with "confirms that it renounced on August 9, 1945, all right, title and claim to Korea and the islands which were part of Korea prior to its annexation by Japan, including the island Quelpart, Port Hamilton, Dagelet, [[Dokdo]] and Parangdo." {{cite book| year = 1951 | title = Foreign Relations of the United States vol. 6| pages = 1206}}</ref>

The final treaty did not address the Dokdo dispute. <ref>The South Korean President [[Syngman Rhee]] declared sovereignty over Dokdo with the [[Syngman Rhee line]] declaration of January 18, 1952, just before the [[Treaty of San Francisco]] was concluded with Japan on September 8, 1951.</ref> Also there exist other U.S. State Department documents <ref>The dispatch from the U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo [http://www.geocities.com/mlovmo/temp8.html], for example, states that the history of Dokdo has been reviewed "more than once by the [State] Department," and determined to be "at one time part of the Kingdom of Korea.... They were, of course, annexed together with the remaining territory of Korea when Japan extended its Empire over the former Korean State." This contradicts with the claim of the Rusk documents, which state: "As regards the island of Dokdo, otherwise known as Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks, this normally uninhabited rock formation was according to our information never treated as part of Korea and, since about 1905, has been under the jurisdiction of the Oki Islands Branch Office of Shimane Prefecture of Japan. The island does not appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea."

The dispatch further notes that Dokdo was "formally incorporated... into the metropolitan area of Japan and placed... administratively under the control of one of the Japanese prefecture" during its colonial occupation of Korea. It continues that Japan, "with reason" assumed its sovereignty over Dokdo remained after the peace treaty, but that "[f]or obvious reasons, the Koreans have disputed this assumption."</ref> as well as [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] documents <ref>On March 24, 2005, [[KBS]] World Radio reported that CIA documents from 1951 uncovered recently in the port city of [[Busan]] indicate that the U.S. believed Japan renounced its claim to Dokdo by signing the [[San Francisco Peace Treaty]]. [http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=1&key=2005032430]</ref> that seem to contradict the Rusk documents. The U.S. policy "has been and continues to be" (as of March 2005) that the "United States does not take a position on either Korea's claim or Japan's claim to the island." <ref>See [http://seoul.usembassy.gov/march_16_2005.html U.S. Embassy Refutes Press Reports], Issued by the Embassy of the United States in Seoul, South Korea, [[March 16]], [[2005]], last paragraph.</ref>

== Summary ==

summary of this documents is as follows.

*The Independence Day of Korea is not August 9, 1945(Japanese acceptance of [[Potsdam Declaration|Potsdam declaration]]).

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*Japanese property in Koera is pursuant to directives of United States Military Government.

=== Background ===

While making of the [[Treaty of San Francisco]], the following communications existed about the benefits of South Korea, between the South Korea government and the U.S. Government at that time.

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:Agree on an armistice (Korea didn't attend signing ceremony)

=== Korean request ===

The demand from the [[South Korea]] government to U.S. Government was three of the followings;<br>

#Takeshima ([[Dokdo]]) is added to the abandonment territory in [[Japan]] and it considers as a Korean territory on August 9, 1945.

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:"As regards the islands of [[Dokdo]], otherwise known as Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks never treated as part of Korea and, since about 1905, has been under the jurisdiction of the [[Oki]] Islands Branch Office of [[Shimane Prefecture]] of Japan. The Island does not appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea."

=== U.S. State Department's reply(Rusk documents) ===

===The independence day of Korea===

*The independence day of Korea is not August 9, 1945(Japanese acceptance of Potsdam declaration)

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Artcle 2 in [[Treaty of San Francisco]]"Japan recognizing the independence of Korea~~" show taht The independence day of Korea is Japan concluding [[Treaty of San Francisco]](April 28, 1952).

===Liancourt RocksDokdo===

*Liancourt Rocks is a territory of Japan.

:Excerpt:"Liancourt Rocks, this normally uninhabited rock formation was according to our information never treated as part of Korea and, since about 1905, has been under the jurisdiction of the Oki Islands Branch Office of Shimane Prefecture of Japan. The island does not appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea."

The final treaty did not address Dokdo. Because this documents rejected a South Korean request that Japan should renounce islands of Dokdo and Parangdo(imaginary island) by as a consequence of the peace treaty

<ref>

On [[July 19]], [[1951]], the South Korean government sent a document (signed in the name of [[You Chan Yang]]) that requested the U.S.-Britain joint draft of the [[Treaty of San Francisco]] to replace the word "renounces" in Paragraph ''a'', Article Number 2, with "confirms that it renounced on August 9, 1945, all right, title and claim to Korea and the islands which were part of Korea prior to its annexation by Japan, including the island Quelpart, Port Hamilton, Dagelet, [[Dokdo]] and Parangdo." {{cite book| year = 1951 | title = Foreign Relations of the United States vol. 6| pages = 1206}}

</ref>.

Joseph Yun, U.S. Embassy Political Minister-Counselor in Seoul comments on March 16, 2005

"U.S. policy on the Dokdo/Takeshima Island issue has been and continues to be that the United States does not take a position on either Korea's claim or Japan's claim to the island. Our hope is that the two countries will resolve the issue amicably."

<ref>

See [http://seoul.usembassy.gov/march_16_2005.html U.S. Embassy Refutes Press Reports], Issued by the Embassy of the United States in Seoul, South Korea, [[March 16]], [[2005]], last paragraph.

</ref>

===MacArthur line and Syngman Rhee line===

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:Abstract:"such property was not sequestered or Otherwise interfered with by the Japanese Government" because "Japan of Korean origin" are "the status of Japanese"

Korean had beenare not colonialcolony citizens and had beenare Japanese during the war.and because Korean had the state of Japanese,Korean property was not sequestered or Otherwise interfered with by the Japanese Government.

Point:Korean had have state of Japanese during the war.