Asia-Pacific

ROK unveils declassified diplomatic documents

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-02-21 10:54

SEOUL - The Republic of Korea (ROK)'s foreign ministry on Monday unveiled declassified diplomatic documents on issues ranging from US forces stationed here to fishing regulations between ROK and Japan.

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Some 180,000 pages of the documents have been made public after 30 years, an attempt to "promote the public's right to know and seek administrative transparency," the ministry said in a press release.

The dossiers also deal with issues including the popular democracy uprising in the 1980's, diplomatic relations with the United States, bettering status of ethnic Koreans living in Japan and relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) and the US.

The ministry has declassified a total of 1.58 million pages of diplomatic documents since 1994.