The treaty is an illegal and deceptive one which was forcibly fabricated by the brutal Japanese imperialists to legalize their occupation of Korea.

In 1909, the Japanese imperialists began to put into practice their wild ambition for occupying Korea.

The then foreign minister of Japan Jutaro Komura made out a draft on "annexation" and presented it to Prime Minister Katsura. Early in April that year, Katsura, Ito and Komura discussed the ways to "annex" Korea to Japan.

Terauchi, who was appointed as "resident-general in Korea" instead of Ito, fabricated the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty" in collusion with Ri Wan Yong and other pro-Japanese traitors on August 22, 1910.

For fear of Korean people's fierce anti-Japanese resistance and international backlash, the Japanese imperialists made public the treaty on August 29.

Nevertheless, Japan has so far shamelessly misled the public opinion to give the international community such impression that its colonial rule over Korea was legitimate.

The Korean people will never forget the history of the Japanese imperialists' aggression of Korea and surely exact apology and compensation from Japan.