Background
The Rusk documents are part of a series of documents exchanged between Korea, the United States, and Japan, prior to the completion of the Treaty of San Francisco. Draft treaties began to appear as early as 1949 (see Draft Treaty of Peace With Japan). Over the next several years, Korea made a number of requests to the United States, and the United States sent a number of diplomatic responses as well, of which the Rusk documents are one. The final treaty was concluded in April, 1952.
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