KOREAN CONSULATE GENERAL
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

30th July, 1959

The Government of the Republic of Korea today released through its missions abroad a white paper entitled: "Full Facts of the Duplicity of the Japanese Government in their Proposals to Deport Korean Residents in Japan to Communist Northern Korea "
This 16-point document accused Japan of having violated an agreement with the Republic of Korea in attempting to send the Korean residents to the Gommniat-occupied northern half of Korea. It also declared Japan may have "ulterior designs and motives" affecting Korean sovereignty and territory.
The White paper makes these major points in reviewing the deportation controversy:
1. Deportations were unilaterally announced by Japan on January 30, 1959, when the 4th Korea-Japan Talks were expected to be resumed in a few days. On April 13 the Japanese opened negociations with the Communists at Geneva to sell Korean nationals to Communist slavery.
2. Japan attempted to utilize the International Committee of the Red Cross as "camouflage", but then dropped insistence upon ICRC supervision when the Communists objected.
3. Some 1,340,000 Koreans already have been repatriated to Korea. The 600,000 who remained have been discriminated against by the Japanese Government, which has not compensated them for employment as forced labourers in the years before the end of World War II.
4. The Government of the Republic of Korea is ready to accept a voluntary mass repatriation, provided Japan pays compensation to these people, the amount to be fixed in bilateral negotiations.
5. To deport the Koreans to Communism would be inhumanitarian and in contravention of the Declaration of Human rights, because the Communists do not admit or respect freedom in choice of domicile.
b. Claims that a large number of Koreans want to go to the occupied north are communist propaganda. Expressions of intent to leave Japan were obtained by bribes, deceit, and forcible means.
7. Augmentation of Communist manpower through the deportations would aid and abet Communism in its agression against the Republic of Korea and the United Nations forces standing guard there.
g. The Republic of Korea is the only lawful government on the Korean peninsula and its citizens cannot be deported by Japan without its consent.
9. Because Communism constitutes a slave system, and slavery is prohibited by international law and justice, the deportation would be a transgression against civilized morality and behaviour.
The white paper also asserts that "the deportation scheme is undermining all hope of friendship and co-operation between Korea and Japan."
Status and future of the Korean residents was under discussion by the fourth Korea-Japan Conference when Japan announced the deportation plan. As a result, direct negotiations between the two countries have not been resumed on the residents and other differences.
Korean Government sources have declared that the conference can be resumed as soon as the Japanese abandon the deportation attempt and give indication of sincerity in trying to reach and overall settlement with Korea.