In the Treaty of Peacn with Japan, there are the

Liancourt Rock is not listed up on the treaty which Japan renounced of.

Because Rusk Documents, result of the process that United Nation refuse Korean claim

that Liancourt rocks and Tsushima island separate from Japan to add Korea.

 

The process to San Fransisco Treary

1.       Korean request that Liancourt Rocks be Territory of Korea. July 19, 1951

1.My Government requests that the word “renounces” in Paragraph a, Article Number 2, should be replaced by “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.”

 

2.       Dean Rusk documents refuses Korean request that Liancourt Rocks and Tushima is territory of Korea.

With respect to request of the Korean Government that Article 2(a) of the draft be revised to provide that Japan "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 islands Quelpart, Port Hamilton, Dagelet, Dokdo and Parangdo," the United States Government regrets that it is unable to concur in this proposed amendment. The United States Government does not feel that the Treaty should adopt the theory that Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 9, 1945 constituted a formal or final renunciation of sovereignty by Japan over the areas dealt with in the Declaration. 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. It is understood that the Korean Government's request that "Parangdo" be included among the islands named in the treaty as having been renounced by Japan has been withdrawn.

 

3.       Treary of Peace with Japan in San Francisco.(Liancourt Rocks is not included that Japan renouces the its owne territory in The treaty)

Article 2

(a) Japan recognizing the independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet

 

 

Those document below reconfirms Peace treaty with Japan and Dean Rusk Doccuments.

)1952.11.05.Confidential Security Information about Liancourt Rocks

Letter from Office of Northeast Asian Affairs To E. Allan Lightner American Embassy, Pusan Korea

by Kenneth T. Young, Jr. Director Office of Northeast Asian Affairs

 

It appears that the Department has taken the position that these rocks belong to Japan and has so informed the Korean Ambassador in Washington.

 

The action of the United States-Japan Joint Committee in designating these rocks as a facility the Japanese Government is therefore justified.

 

The Korean claim, based on SCAPIN677, which suspended Japanese administration of various island areas, include Takeshima (Liancourt Rocks), did not preclude Japan from exercising sovereignty over this area permanently.

 

)1952.12.04CONFIDENTIAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Letter from E. Allan Lightner American Embassy, Pusan Korea To Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, the Department of the State (1pages)
by E. Allan Lightner, Jr. American Embassy, Pusan Korea

 

We had never heard of Dean Rusk's letter to the Korean Ambassador in which the Department took definite stand on this question…..

but had no thinking that that decision constituted a rejection of the Korean claim. Well, now we know and we are very glad to have the information as we have been operating on the basis of a wrong assumption for along time

 

I am sending with a transmitting dispatch, a copy of the note that we have just sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.......which refers to Dean Rusk’s note to Ambassador Yang of August 10, 1951

 

 

)1953.07.22 COMFIDENTIAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Letter from Office of Northeast Asian Affairs To E. Allan Lightner American Embassy, Pusan Korea (3pages)
by L. Burmaster Office of U.S. Northeast Asian Affair

 

Since sending the August 10,1951 note to the ROK Government, the United States Government has sent only one additional communication on the subject this was done in response to the ROK protest of the a??leged bombing of Dokdo Island by a United States military plane. The United States note of December 4, 1952 states:
" The Embassy has taken note of the statement contained in the Ministry’s Note that ‘Dokdo Island (Liancourt Rocks)…… is apart of the territory of the Republic of Korea.’ The United States Government’s understanding of the territorial status of this island was stated in Assistant Secretary of States Dean Rusk’s note to the Korean Ambassador in Washington dated August 10, 1951.”

 

)1953.11.30 Secret security Information.

Memorandum in regard to the Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima Island) controversy
by William T. Turner

 

)1954.04.26-08.07. Report of Van Fleet mission to the Far East

1954 United States Military Assistance Program Far East "Van Fleet Mission" 26 April - 7 August 1954

by Ambassador James A. Van Fleet

The Island of Dokto (otherwise called Liancourt and Take Shima) is in the Sea of Japan approximately midway between Korea and Honshu (131.80E, 36.20N). This Island is, in fact, only a group of barren, uninhabited rocks. When the Treaty of Peace with Japan was being drafted, the Republic of Korea asserted its claims to Dokto but the United States concluded that they remained under Japanese sovereignty and the Island was not included among the Islands that Japan released from its ownership under the Peace Treaty. The Republic of Korea has been confidentially informed of the United States position regarding the islands but our position has not been made public. Though the United States considers that the islands are Japanese territory, we have declined to interfere in the dispute. Our position has been that the dispute might properly be referred to the International Court of Justice and this suggestion has been informally conveyed to the Republic of Korea.

 

Those document clearly denies Korean insist on Liancourt rocks,

their ground of  SCAPIN 677 and SCAPIN1033.

Orcourse, the map below, is just G.HQ’s administlative area,

 but it is not Final decision of Japan’s and Koera’s sovereign.

Final decision concludes in Treaty of Peace with Japan in San Francisco.