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"Ulsa Five-point Treaty", Fraudulent Document
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- It is 113 years since the Japanese imperialists cooked up the "Ulsa (1905) Five-point Treaty" for reducing Korea to a colony. The forcible fabrication of the "treaty" shows well the impudent and shameless gangster-like nature of the Japanese imperialists.

In order to "conclude the treaty", the Japanese imperialists deployed their aggression troops in various parts of Seoul where Korea's Imperial Palace was located to surround the palace with double and triple rings. And they dragged out ministers of the Korean government to the conference hall of the Cabinet by force of arms and compelled them to take a vote on the "treaty". They even conducted such impudent act of stamping the then foreign ministry's official seal on the "treaty" by themselves.

The "treaty" was a fraudulent document without royal signature and royal seal, an important procedure in concluding the "treaty".

Kojong, emperor of Korea at that time, in his personal letters to the heads of Czarist Russia, U.S., Germany and other countries in January 1906 wrote that he neither admit nor seal the "treaty" concluded on November 17, 1905 by a Japanese envoy and Foreign Minister Pak Je Sun. He also accredited three emissaries to the Second International Peace Conference held in Hague in June 1907 to expose the illegality and invalidity of the "treaty".

That's why in its report submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in 1963 the United Nations Commission on International Law singled the "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" out as one of the four invalid treaties in the world which were concluded by force.

And the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto said that the "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" is the most fraudulent document in the world history and Japan is an impudent robber as it cooked up a treaty between countries at its own will, forging a history.

It is an inflexible will of the Korean people to settle the past crimes of Japan without fail.

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