The symposium heard papers that proved with scientific and detailed facts that Tok Islets are part of inviolable territory of Korea and denounced Japan's historical moves to grab Tok Islets.

Associate academician, Prof. and Dr. Jo Hui Sung, director of an institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, said that Tok Islets have been part of the inalienable territory of Korea throughout history.

The fact that Ullung Island was discovered and explored in the ancient times (or before) indicates the possibility of the discovery and exploration of the islets.

Usan Kingdom which had Ullung Island and Tok Islets under its administration with Ullung Island as main territory were returned to Silla Kingdom early in the 6th century and later they were put under the administration of Uljin County of Koryo after its fall.

During the Korean feudal dynasty Ullung Island and Tok Islets remained land belonging to Uljin County, Kangwon Province.

The feudal dynasty promulgated ordinance No. 41 on October 25, 1900 to reconfirm its dominium over Tok Islets under modern international law at that time. It went through legal procedures concerning territorial possession and declared it at home and abroad. It was five years before the Japanese imperialists fabricated "Shimane Prefectural Proclamation" No. 40.

Dr. and Associate Prof. Ri Kwang Hui, deputy dean of a faculty of Kim Il Sung University, noted:

Japan has historically committed the moves to grab Ullung Island and Tok Islets.

Japan's moves to invade Tok Islets had persisted till its occupation of Korea, beginning with its invasion of Ullung Island in the latter half of the 14th century.

During the Imjin Patriotic War the Japanese troops intruded into the island, turning it into debris and in the 17th century they plundered Ullung Island and Tok Islets of their vast area of forest and marine resources.

Japan hatched a new plot to hold the dominium over Ullung Island and Tok Islets while officially recognizing the Korean feudal dynasty's dominium over those territories.

In December 1869 right after the "Meiji Restoration", Japan sent high-ranking officials of the Foreign Ministry to Korea to learn about the historical background against which Ullung Island and Tok Islets came under the jurisdiction of Korea. In 1882 when sending Hanabusa as a representative having full mandate after soldiers' uprising in Korea, Japan gave him a secret instruction to take over Ullung Island from the Korean feudal dynasty.

Dr. and Associate Prof. Han Yong Chan, deputy rector of Kim Chol Ju University of Education, said:

Japan's "dominium over Tok Islets" is a shameless distortion of history full of deception, conspiracy and crafty trick, when viewed from "Shimane Prefectural Proclamation".

The "Shimane Prefectural Proclamation" is proven to be illegal and false document through international conventions on postwar handling of Japanese territory as they defined Tok Islets as land to be abandoned by Japan and made them land of Korea.

The Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration also made it clear that areas Japan grabbed by violence out of greed are excluded from Japan's territory and clearly defined four main islands and "several small islets" to be decided by allies in the future as Japan's territory.

Dr. and Associate Prof. Hwang Myong Chol, room chief of the Academy of Social Sciences, said:

Japan's dominium over "Tok Islets" is a revelation of its militarist ambition for territorial expansion.

An immediate aim sought by Japan through its territorial claim to Tok Islets is to seize rich natural resources in the waters off Tok Islets, hold a monopoly of economic interests there and thus provide an outpost and a military bridgehead from which to realize its territorial ambition and attempt at reinvasion.

The Japanese reactionaries consider the DPRK as the primary target of their overseas aggression and dream of advancing into the continent with Korea as a springboard in a bid to dominate Asia once again.

The speakers demanded the Japanese reactionaries retract at once the shameless "claim to Tok Islets" and "Day of Takeshima" and stop their rash actions prompted by an anachronistic daydream.