history

After occupying Korea in the last century, the Japanese imperialists resorted to every possible means and method to consolidate their colonial domination and intensify plundering the Korean people. 

Especially, they were hell-bent on expropriating the land of the country. 

It was not simply geared towards obtaining economic rights and interests.  

At that time, agriculture constituted the major part of the economy and an overwhelming majority of Koreans were engaged in farming. Therefore, the Japanese imperialists believed that they could consolidate the foundation of their colonial rule only when they brought land, the basic means of agricultural production, under their control.

To this end, the Japanese imperialists opened up a way for freely plundering Korea’s land under the pretext of “reclamation” by promulgating the “law on the use of state-owned uncultivated land” in July 1907. In April 1911, they fabricated and promulgated the “land expropriation act” to provide conditions for plundering land on a greater scale.

The Japanese imperialists stipulated in the act that land can be expropriated if necessary for the work of public benefit and that the government-general of Korea decides the land expropriation and promulgates the details of the land that was expropriated, thus making it possible to plunder land at will under the signboard of “public benefit”.

The Japanese imperialists robbed vast areas of land from Koreans, and used it as sites for building roads and factories and laying railways, thus intensifying their colonial plunder.

In August 1912, the “land survey act” was issued to establish the colonial system of plundering the rural areas.

Owing to the Japanese imperialists’ plunder, the economy of Korea was reduced to a colonial dependent economy with severe colonial subjugation and one-sidedness. Many Koreans who had to live a miserable life of slaves deprived of the elementary right to existence were forced to leave their dear homes to seek refuge in other countries.

Despite the historical truth, the Japanese are still making desperate efforts to deny their wrongdoings and evade the responsibility for the past crimes.

No matter how much water may flow under the bridge, the pent-up grudge of the DPRK people can never be washed out.

They will surely make the Japanese pay dearly for their crimes.