A telegram sent by the deputy director of the office of Northeast asian affairs to the deputy

assistant secretary of state for far eastern affairs

A declassified top-secret document stating the U.S. government’s opinion on the return of the abducted

South Korean civilians. it states that the U.S. would raise the repatriation issue under item # 4 of the

armistice negotiation but it would not allow it to hinder the negotiation.

Source / Reference: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Library / Foreign Relations of the United States 1951
Volume VII, Korea and China, Part 1

[해설]

해제된 일급비밀 문서로 미국이처음에는 휴전협상 의제제4항에서 납북된 남한민간인송 환문제를 거론할 것을 계획하지만 휴전협상이 이 문제로 지연되어서는 곤란하다는 입장을 전달함으로써이문건역시납북자송환이정치적이유로실패하게되었음을보여주고있다.