Among them is the "Korea-Japan Protocol", which was made under the military threat and blackmail.

The "protocol" was aimed at putting the Feudal Joson Dynasty (1392-1910) under Japan's control ahead of the Russo-Japanese War, thereby creating favorable conditions for the war and building a legal guarantee for colonizing Korea beforehand.

To this end, the Japanese imperialists adopted in December 1903 a decision on dispatching Japanese armed forces to Korea under the pretext to defend it from outside forces' invasion.

After unleashing the Russo-Japanese War, they forced the draft "protocol" upon the Feudal Joson Dynasty, but it was rejected by some of the ministers for its aggression nature.

Upset by such opposition, they arrested those ministers and had the "protocol" signed on February 23, 1904, in the absence of them.

This document was a deceptive one, disguised by such rhetorical phrases as "peace in the East" and "Korea's sovereignty and its territorial preservation".

It was a "treaty" for aggression, in essence, as it was aimed to shoulder a big share of burden of war upon the Korean people.