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It has been 120 years since the Japanese imperialists fabricated the "Ulsa five-point treaty".

The treaty which the Japanese imperialists took as one of the "legal grounds" for colonizing Korea in the last century is an illegal and fraudulent document with no legal validity.

International treaties are, in essence, voluntary agreements between sovereign states.

Both the international customary law of modern times and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, an international law of the present times, stipulate that any treaty, which is concluded by coercing the representative of a state into agreeing, is null and void.

But the Japanese imperialists cooked up the "Ulsa five-point treaty" by means of military threat and pressure.

Japan dispatched Ito Hirobumi as a special envoy to Korea in November 1905 with a view to seizing its sovereignty. He showed a draft of the treaty, which had already been drawn up, to Emperor Kojong and ministers of the Korean feudal government, trying to force them to accept it unconditionally.

Kojong stubbornly rejected it, saying that if he allowed it, it would mean his country’s ruin. Then the Japanese imperialists began to mobilize their military power.

After encircling the inside and outside of the imperial palace with many troops, the Japanese imperialists conducted military drills in front of the palace.

In such an atmosphere, a royal council meeting on the matter of the “treaty" took place in the emperor’s presence in the imperial palace on November 17, in which ministers of the Korean feudal government decided to refuse to conclude it.

Upon hearing the news that the negotiations came to a rupture, Ito Hirobumi went into the palace and forced the ministers of the Korean feudal government to gather in a room and tried to press them to approve the “treaty”.

When several ministers expressed disagreement, Ito threatened and pressurized them openly, and even ordered his lackeys to kill them if they did not give in.

The Japanese imperialists were so base as to unhesitatingly steal the seal of the foreign minister and stamp it on the fabricated “treaty” to “legitimize” it.

That is why in 1935 the League of Nations issued a “report on treaty-making law”, in which it counted the "Ulsa five-point treaty" as one of the three invalid treaties in the history of the conclusion of international treaties.

A report submitted to the 15th session of the UN International Law Commission in 1963 also defined the treaty as the result of duress or act of threat and as absolutely invalid.

More than a century has passed since its fabrication.

However, Japan still does not honestly admit its past crimes but is committing hostile acts against the DPRK.

Japan should clearly know.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.