KOREAN NONAGGRESSION PACT IS OFFERED FROM THE NORTH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: July 22, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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day proposed holding a ointV~Ca co-
mentary meeting with ~u parlia?
next month to discuss a nonag~gress on
pact. The otter is the latest of a aeries
of proposals to ease tensions between
the two neighbors. p
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id the
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was made in a letter sent today to the
Speaker of South Korea's National As-
aemDly, Kim Chae Sun, According to
South Korean news reports, Mr. Kim's
but~decsUneti to d sc as its~contenta and
acid Seoul would have no immediate
response. pos
overturpea by Sattttt~Koree to the Noretrh, I
Two wee a ago, President Roh Tae
Woo of South Korea Proposed allowing
trade
famil
vi
i
,
y .
s
ts and student ex-
changes between the two nations, and
said South Korea would encourage Ica
allies, Including the United States, to
Improve relations.with North Korea.
Last week, South Korea proposed that
South and North Korean students
march through the two nations, hold
meetin
s
d
g
an
plan sports exchanges.
North Rejects Roh Proposals
North Korea has rejected these pro.
posals and today offered instead to act
as host for the first joint parliamentary
meeting In Ica capital, Pyongyang, in
August, s month before the Olympic
Games in Seoul.
South Korea has expressed concern
that the North, angry at the !allure of
'its demand to serve as co-host for the
Games, might mount a terrorist attack
during the Olympics.. South Korean
news reports today said North Korea's
letter was In response to one sent by
the South Ko
rean National Assembly
on Monday urging the North to take
part In the Games.
Both Nonh and South Korea have
only~ave !tie othero side rejebect the
idea. North Korea has also proposed
parliamentary exchanges, arguing
that because opposition groups now
have a parliamentary majority, a par?
aamentary meeting ? would be more
?rept'esentatlve of South Korea than a
Covernment?to-Government meeting.?
The two sides held discussions In the
spring of 1985 about possible parlia-
mentsr
y exchanges, but the talks
broke oft. Mr. Roh dtd not raise the pos-
siblilty of a parliamentary meeting In
his previous proposal.
Contents of the Letter
The North Korean letter, sent to Mr.
Kim through the truce village of Pan-
munjom on the' Demilitarized Zone,
was translated by the North Korean
Central News A ency Into English. The
English text said in part: "lyeither to
t on andtwarobeneficial They cannot the
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Korean Nonaggression Pact
Is Offered From the North
By SUSAN CHIRA
TAKVn t..~.. o, ?__., aVec411o TLe New York Time.
Sood to the Olympic Games either."
liamentary t Iks j rs~ in Phoo i a Mato
be hosted by the chairman of North
Korea's Supreme People's Assembly,
and then in Seoul, to be hosted by flu'
Speaker of South Korea's National As-
sembly.
The letter also included a draft of :t
nonaggression pact, declaring thst the
North and the South would not use
force against each other and world
make phased reductions in weapons
and gradual withdrawals of foi?~?it;n
forces antl nuclear weapons.
Issue of U.S. Troops
North Korea has long protest
d
e
the
atatloning of more chart 10,000 United
States troops in South Korca and Ims
called South Korea a puppet reRimc.
But the North did not Insist on ?:my
withdrawal of American forces as a
condition for talks. The North Kart:rn
Overtures are
coming in quick
succession from
both sides.
torrce made up ofsneutral ratio s ~bv
stationed on the DMZ.
pp In a clear reference to South Korean
trK y~ind hold ehxchan
o
e
ges
of cltircr s
North Korea said that a nonaggression
pact must come first.
"Exchange of visits and trade ar?e
impossible, reconciliation and unity
cannot be achieved and relations aJ
c ~o ~r` tio1en~'v'nglthee tundamlen-; I
problems between the North and the
South, which remain virtual
enemicsto
.each other," the English text of the 1Qr?
teraaid. ,
will lbe. Mr.IRoh ishundSer considerrMc
public pressure to improve relations
[loos have placed reundificat on wlthtthe
North at the top of the political agend;i.
The Government Is anxious to avoid
any repetition of an Incident like thc?-
one that occurred on June 10, when vio-
blockaded a s udent marchlto Panmun
jom to meet with North K
orean stu-
dents. South Korean students ha~Y?
Pledged to try aga in on Aug.15.
Despite the public pressure for bct?
ter relations, it is sslble that South
Korea will regard the North's proposal
as a ploy to draw worldwide attcntioh
to Pyongyang before the Olympics.
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