NORTH KOREAN TERRITORIAL SEA CLAIMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000100190060-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: January 27, 1969
• Content Type: PAPER

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27 January 1969
In statements relative to the capture of the Pueblo, North Korea
has claimed jurisdiction over coastal waters extending twelve nautical
miles. Research has been undertaken by CIA and also by State Department
on the North Korean claims to determine the methodology employed by
the North Koreans in projecting their claimed territorial sea limits.
To date, no specific governmental decree has been found on the subject.
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Shown on the accompanying US Hydrographic Office chart by a solid
blue line is the 12 mile offshore sovereignty claimed by North Korea.
It represents the ocean area encompassed by use of the normal baseline
method measured from the low-waterline along theccoast. In two instances
the straight baseline method, which permits the simulation of a coastline
seaward from a line drawn to connect headlands of water bodies indenting
State Dept. review completed
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the mainland, is used (this is permissible under the agreements reached
by the Conference at the Law of the Sea Convention in Geneva, 1958.) In
two other places on the chart, the solid blue line terminates and is
continued as a dotted line within a red arc. The dotted blue line
represents continuation of the 12 mile offshore claim based on the normal
baseline, while the red arc depicts the extended 12 mile limit, based.
on the offshore islands from which the red line has been projected.
Although the first communist nation (the Soviet Union) to extend
its claim to 12 miles did so in 1927, the date of North Korea's initial
claim to 12 mile sovereignty is not clear. A State Department Geographic
Bulletin of April 1965 lists both South and North Korea as claiming 12
miles as the breadth of the territorial sea.
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27 January 1969
The attached was shown to William Woodruff,
of the Senate Appropxiations Committe, along
with map pertaining to same subject as the
memo. Copies of memo and map were not
left with Mr. Woodruff.
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