CHINA AND NORTH KOREA SIGN TELEGRAPH CONVENTION

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1950
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CHINA AND NORT_E KOREA SIGN TELEGRAPH CONVENTION
Pei-p'ing, 27 January (Hsin-hua) -- China and Korea have ratified a Tele-
graph Convention which was signed by their representatives in Pei-ping,
25 December 1949, and which wJ. .-_1 go into effect 1 February 1950. The Ministry
of Posts and Telegraph has published the complete text of the document, which
is as follows:
The Ministry of Posts and Telegraph of the People's Government of the Re-
public of China, he_einafte: referred to as China, and the Ministry of Com-
munications of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, hereinafter referred
to as Korea, in order to open the way Fnr the exchange of telegraph communica-
tions between their two countries, have mutually agreed upon the following arti-
cles.
Article 1. Both parties agree to establish and maintain the necessary instal-
lations and wire conductors for telegraphic connection between the two countries,
viz., telegraph wire connections and instruments, and wireless telegraph (radio)
equipment for the direct reciprocal transmission of telegraphic messages.
Article 2. China and Korea may also transmit over their facilities tele-
grams dispatched from or destined for places outside their own countries upon
which they have mutually agreed.
Article 3. China and Korea shall provide service for the transmission of
nine kinds of messages, as follows:
.1. nfficial telegrams (S) /ode designstions given in Roman letters
in original
2. Urgent :A=Iva telegrams (Urgent Press)
3. Ordinary news telegrams (Press)
4. Urgent private telegrams (D)
5. Ordinary private telegrams (P)
6. Urgent public business telegrams (AD)
7. Ordinary public business telegrams (A)
8. Paid public telegrams (ST)
9. Paid reply public telegrams (RST)
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In the beginning, repeat messages (TC) for special service telegrams
relating to telegraph operations will be hiuidied; later on after mutual agree-
ment, epeat messages for] special service telegrams relating to other kinds
of operations may be handled.
Article 4. Languages to be used in telegrams are limited to Chinese, Kore-
an, and such Latin-letter languages as have been mutually agreed upon. A list
of the places 5elegraph offices in each of the two countries where any of the
above-mentioned languages are handled shall be prepared at once and sent to the
other party.
Article 5. Secret codes (SCDE) may be used in official telegrams and such
messages shall not be subject to investigation. Representative agencies, groups,
or delegates, appointed by either the Chinese or Korean governments, provided
they have been formally registered in the country other than their own, shall
be entitled to use secret codes and their messages shall not be subject to in-
vestigation. Other private telegrams may employ codes in common international
use provided the codes have been approved by both parties to this convention.
Article 6. The assigned priority of telegrams sent between China and Korea
is as follows:
1. Official telegrams
2. Urgent public-business telegrams, paid public telegrams, and paid-
reply public telegrams.
3. Urgent news telegrams
4. Urgent private telegrams
5. Ordinary public telegrams
6. Ordinary news telegrams
7. Ordinary private telegrams
Article 7. The agreed upon routes and mode of transmission for direct tele-
graphic communication between China and Korea are as follows:
1. Pei-p'ing (PK, -- Pyongyang (PH) by radio
2. Shen-yang (SY) -- Pyongyang (PH) by telegraph wires
3. An-tung (AT) -- Sinuiju (SH) by telegraph wires
4. Yen-chi(YK) -- Ch'ongjin (CH) by telegraph wires
Article 8. Mutual operational connection is permitted between all telegraph
offices within the territories of China and Korea. Both parties shall supply each
other with the names of all the telegraph offices in their respective countries.
Article 9. With referen:e to the direct exchange of telegraph service be-
tween China and Korea, the basic rates, method of apportioning the fees, account-
ing methods of both parties, exchange of bills of account, and method of clear-
ing accounts, shall be mutually decided in accordance with established interna-
tional telegraph practices.
Article 10. The responsibility for .ietermining the charges for telegrams be-
tween Korea and other countries, relayed via China, rests with China. The responsi-
bility for determining the charges for telegrams between China and other coun-
tries relayed via Korea rests with Korea.
Article 11. The rate oi' charges for official telegrams (S) shall be one
half the rate for ordinary private telegrams (P), but this applies only to of-
ficial telegrams sent by the governments of China and Korea or their official
representatives. Official telegrams sent by the government representatives of
other countries, between China and Korea, shall be charged the full rates. The
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private telegrams (D) shall be double that for ordinary private telegrams (P).
Article 13. Both pdrties are expected to maintain ample technical facili-
ties for expeditiously melting the traffic needs of the two countries. If, in
Article 15. Continuous service 24 hours a day shall be maintained on the
wire telegraph lines between China and Korea.
Article 17. If a telegraph office of either country, due to domestic
trouble in connection with its telegraphs or to any other peculiar conditions,
finds it impossible to deliver to the addressee within 5 hours of the time
of receipt any telegram dispatched by an office in the other country, it shall
immediately notify the sending office by a service telegram to that effect.
countries shall be responsible for erecting and maintaining their respective
wires up to those points. Technical matters pertaining to the connection of
Article 19. In the management and operation of telegraphic service be-
tween China and Korea, both countries, besides complying with the provisions
of this convention, shall observe the applicable portions of such interna-
tional telegraphic agreements as the International Telegraph Regulations, the
International Radio Regulations. and the International Radio Supplementar,
Regulations, providing that they are not in conflict with this convention.
Article 20. Written communications between the two countries relative to
operational matters should, as far as possible, consist of bcth a Chinese ver-
Article 21. Should the provisions of this convention prove to be lack-
ing or unsuitable in any respect, the convention may be amended by mutual
agreement.
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Article 22. This convention, after approval by the governments of both
countries and reciprocal notification of such approval, shall go into effect
on 1 February 1950, and remain in effect for 3 years from that date. At any
time up to 6 months before the expiration of the term of this convention, ei-
ther party may notify the other party of its intention to terminate the con-
vention; and in that event, zha convention shall be terminated on the date of
expiration. If, at that time, neither party has signified its intention to
terminate the convention, it shall continue in force beyond the date of ex-
piration. Thereafter, either party may at any time give the other party writ-
ten notification of its intention to terminate the convention, whereupon it
shall be terminated 6 months from the date of the notification.
This convention shall be prepared in duplicate in the Chinese and
Korean languages, and China and Korea shall each retain one copy. The Chinese
version and the Korean version shall be of equal effect. Should there be any
difference of opinion as to the meaning of any part of the convention, the mat-
ter shall be settled by mutual consultation.
At the same time that this convention shall go into effect, the North-
east Liberated Area of the Republic of China-North Korea Provisional Postal
and Telegraph Convention, and the detailed regulations for its implementation,
which were signed 18 December 1947 between the Bureau of Communications of the
North Korea People's Committee and the Postal and Telegraph Administration of
the Northeast Executive Committee of the Republic of China shall become null
and void.
This convention was executed 25 December 1949, at Pei-ping, the capital
of the People's Republic of China, in witness whereof the signatures of the
representatives of both parties are hereunto- subscribed:
Signed: Wang Tzu-kang (Ueda: 7262, 2262, 8884)
Huang Ju-tau (14693, 2031, 8117)
Sun Ch'uan-hsien (2282, 468, 11397)
Representing the Ministry of Posts and Telegraph of
the People's Republic of China.
Signed: Ch'e Ping-t'ing (11740, 8185, 160)
Sung Li-hsien (2312, 8165, 11397)
Representing the Ministry of Communications
of the Democratic i.ople's Republic of Korea
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