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Korea had sought an amendment formalizing the date Japan had ceded control of Korea, including several disputed islands as Korean territory, at the point of Japanese acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, but this was rejected: "The United States Government does not feel that the Treaty should adopt the theory that Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 9, 1945 constituted a formal or final renunciation of sovereignty by Japan over the areas dealt with in the Declaration."^[6]

"As regards the island of Dokdo, otherwise known as Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks, this normally uninhabited rock formation was according to our information never treated as part of Korea and, since about 1905, has been under the jurisdiction of the Oki Islands Branch Office of Shimane Prefecture of Japan. The island does not appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea."^[7]

The MacArthur line was to stand only until the conclusion of the Treaty of San Francisco: "the so-called MacArthur line will stand until the treaty comes into force."

However, South Korean President Syngman Rhee disregard it and declared the Syngman Rhee Line and the sovereignty over Dokdo on January 18, 1952, just before the Treaty of San Francisco came into force on April 28, 1952.

Japan has no obligation to return the Korean-origin properties of persons in Japan: "there would seem to be no necessity to oblige Japan to return the property of persons in Japan of Korean origin since such property was not sequestered or Otherwise interfered with by the Japanese Government during the war. In view of the fact that such persons had the status of Japanese"

"Japan recognizes the validity of dispositions of property of Japan and Japanese nationals made by or pursuant to directives of United States Military Government in any of the areas referred to in Article 2 and 3."

South Korea claimed an island of uncertain location in 1951, along with Liancourt Rocks, Jeju and other islands.

韓国の楊有燦大使は、パラン島（韓国語: 파랑도、漢字:波浪島）を日本の放棄地に含めるよう米国国務長官に要請した。^{[ 8 ]}ジョン・フォスター・ダレス米国大使がパラン島とリアンクール岩礁の位置について尋ねたところ、韓国大使館の筆頭書記官である杰晏漢は、それらは鬱陵島近くの日本海（東海）にあると答えた。ボッグス氏は「ワシントンであらゆる手段を尽くした」が、パラン島を特定できなかった。^{[ 9 ]}その間、韓国はパラン島に対する領有権主張を取り下げた。^{[ 10 ]}