It goes on:

The Japanese imperialists annexed Korea after cooking up the murder of Minbi, queen of Kojong, hatched a plot to finish off Kojong in a bid to cover up their aggression.

They regarded Kojong as a thorn in their flesh as he stubbornly opposed the conclusion of the "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" from its outset. They hatched a sinister plot to eliminate him.

As he failed to see through the true nature of the U.S. and British imperialists who instigated and helped the Japanese imperialists in their operation to invade Korea behind scene, Kojong dispatched a secret envoy to the International Peace Conference in June 1907, prompted by his desire to preserve the country's independence with their help.

The Japanese imperialists repeatedly hatched all sorts of plots to eliminate Kojong from the political arena and succeeded in dethroning him by shifting the blame for the "Hague incident of secret emissary" on Kojong. Not content with this, they went the lengths of poising him in the end.

Details of poisoning Kojong are mentioned in the "Second Declaration of Independence" drafted and published by the provisional government in Shanghai, China in 1921 and a personal message of King Uichin, Kojong's child by a concubine.

It is written there that a lot of red spots were seen on the whole body of Kojong right after his death and when Min Yong Gi and Hong Kung Sop discovered a lot of decomposition along with red spots on his whole body during the examination of his body before claiming he was poisoned, the Japanese imperialists arrested them.

Facts go to eloquently prove that Kojong was cruelly poisoned by the Japanese imperialists.

The suppression of the head of state is the most vivid expression of state-sponsored terrorism.

Absolutely unpardonable is the above-said crime committed by the Japanese imperialists.