The President's News Conference
10/18/1950
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The present division of Korea along the 380 parallel was never intended by the United States.
Aid in the restoration of the Korean economy should be less costly to the United States in the end than a continued program of relief.
The Government of the Republic of Korea was inaugurated August 15, 1948.
It was resolved that Korea should be liberated.