The President's News Conference
08/24/1949
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The survival and progress of the Republic toward a self-supporting, stable economy will have an immense and far-reaching influence on the pe...
The present division of Korea along the 380 parallel was never intended by the United States.
The Government of the Republic of Korea was inaugurated August 15, 1948.
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.