Bill Text: IL SR0613 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recognizes the 70th anniversary of the United States-Republic of Korea alliance and celebrates the strong cultural and economic ties between the two nations and the special bonds forged between people of the State of Illinois and the Republic of Korea.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - Referred to Assignments [SR0613 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SR0613-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The United States and Korea first established
diplomatic relations on May 22, 1882 with the signing of the
Treaty of Peace, Amiry, Commerce and Navigation; following
Korea's occupation by Japan from 1905 until the end of World
War II, the U.S. formally reestablished its diplomatic
relationship with the Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) on March 25,
1949, and the two nations signed their Mutual Defense Treaty
on October 1, 1953; and
WHEREAS, In 2023, the U.S.-R.O.K. alliance is marking 70
years since the cessation of hostilities in the Korean War and
the signing of the Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, which
remains in place today and, by its terms, has neither formally
ended the Korean War nor constituted a permanent settlement of
peace on the Korean Peninsula; and
WHEREAS, The U.S.-R.O.K. alliance is also rooted in mutual
trust, shared sacrifice, common values, economic interests,
and generations of people-to-people ties that provide a
foundation for one of the strongest, most interoperable, and
enduring bilateral alliances in the world; and
WHEREAS, The U.S.-R.O.K. alliance was forged in shared
sacrifice, as 1,789,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and

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marines served during the Korean War, of whom 36,574 paid the
ultimate sacrifice with their lives in defense of the R.O.K.,
including 7,174 soldiers in the Korean Augmentation to the
U.S. Army; more than 7,500 members of the U.S. Armed Forces
remain classified by the Department of Defense as missing in
action; casualties of the R.O.K. numbered more than 217,000
soldiers killed and more than 291,000 wounded during the war;
and
WHEREAS, The American and Korean people share deeply
rooted values of defending freedom, championing economic and
social opportunity and inclusion, upholding human rights, and
respecting the rule of law; now; therefore, be it