The Rusk documents (also known as the Rusk–Yang correspondence) are the official diplomatic correspondence sent by Dean Rusk, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to Yang You-chan, the South Korean ambassador to the U.S. on August 10, 1951.
The Rusk documents show the negotiating position of the U.S. Department of State.[1][2][3]
The correspondence states the negotiating position as:
- Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration did not constitute a formal or final renunciation of sovereignty by Japan.
- The Japanese claim to the Liancourt Rocks would not be renounced in the peace treaty.
- The MacArthur line stands until the conclusion of the Treaty of San Francisco.
- Japan has no obligation to compensate for damage to private property owned by Koreans that was damaged in Japan during the war.
- Japanese property in South Korea is pursuant to directives of United States Military Government and the South Korean government.
- ^ "Memorandum of Conversation, by the Officer in Charge of Korean Affairs in the Office of Northeast Asian Affairs (Emmons)'"."In the document cited in footnote 2 above, Mr. Rusk continued: "As regards the island of Dokdo . . . 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 do es nlot appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea."
- ^ "島根県 : From the Modern Era to the Present the San Francisco Peace Treaty". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
- ^ "外務省: ご案内- ご利用のページが見つかりません". Archived from the original on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2008-08-16.