The indictment says:

The "Korea-Japan Annexation" was state terrorism committed by the Japanese authorities against a sovereign state by use of government and military power.

Japan had made premeditated and systematic preparations to deprive Korea of national sovereignty for a long period of time.

After the "Meiji Restoration" in 1868, Japan advocated the "Theory of Conquest of Korea" which called for "conquering Korea by force of arms for Japan's prosperity and the 'Imperial State,'" thus laying a political foundation for "Korea-Japan Annexation".

In the subsequent period Japan fabricated the "Ulsa Five-Point Treaty", the "Jongmi Seven-Point Treaty," etc. to take hold of diplomatic right and the rights to administer internal and judicial affairs of the feudal government of Ri Dynasty, thereby turning Korea into its de facto colony and building a political and diplomatic foundation for "annexation".

In February 1906, Japan set up the "Residency-General" in Korea with the aim to push forward the "Korea-Japan Annexation" on the spot.

Japan got frantic in its efforts to lay a military foundation to meet the above-said purpose.

On the basis of these preparations the Japanese authorities held a Cabinet meeting in 1909 at which they made a brigandish decision which said: "It is the most definite method for displaying our ability on the Korean Peninsula to annex it and make it a part of the territory of the Imperial State."

At its Cabinet meeting held In July 1910 Japan finally confirmed the scenario for occupying Korea which called for depriving Korea of royal household right and completely seizing its territory.

According to this, Japan forced the "annexation" upon Korea and worked hard to completely eliminate its Emperor, the supreme representative of old Korea, from the political arena.

In the "treaty", which Japan claimed to be a legal document on the "annexation", the Japanese authorities stipulated that "His Majesty the Emperor of Korea has completely and permanently transferred all the rights to govern the whole territory of Korea and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan has accepted the transfer of them from the former and approved the complete annexation of Korea to the Japanese Empire. As a result, the position and role of head of state of Korea became titular.

The executors of the Japanese policies in Korea made desperate efforts to dethrone the Emperor of Korea to reduce him to a commoner of Japan under the direction and wire-pulling of the authorities.

"Messages on the annexation of Korea sent and received," confidential messages exchanged between the "Residency-General" and the Japanese Cabinet as daily reports about the occupation of Korea, contained specific plots and strategies worked out by the Japanese authorities for the annexation. Most of them dealt with the issues of how to name Korea after the annexation and how to change the royal household. This is a clear testimony proving how persistently Japan tried to eliminate the supreme representative of old Korea.

Absolutely unpardonable was the arrogant and high-handed action taken by Japan to dethrone the Emperor of Korea so as to reduce him to a commoner of Japan.

The suppression of the head of state of Korea was the most vivid manifestation of state terrorism. Because the suppression and insult to the head of state brought his people the unbearable sorrow of being members of a stateless nation and imposed upon them the destiny of national ruin.

The arch criminals who fabricated the "Korea-Japan Annexation" were the king of Japan and its government and military that acted by his orders and with his approvals.

The king and the prime minister of the Cabinet directly commanded and manipulated state terrorism for realization of the annexation and the military guaranteed it by force and high-handed actions.

The south Korean paper Segye Ilbo dated August 13, 1993 in an article titled "Records documenting the whole aspect of Japan's occupation of Korea discovered" said:

"Particulars of Japan's annexation of Korea, a report of the Resident-General in Korea," is a crucial document confirming the fact that Terauchi did not handle single-handedly the issue of annexing Korea but it was directly commanded not only by the Cabinet but the Emperor of Japan. The document proves that the "the Residency-General' in Korea came directly under the Emperor on July 20, 1910 before Terauchi was posted in Korea and that he implemented the decision of the Cabinet as far as the name of Korea was concerned. The document makes it clear that the Japanese imperialists seized Korea under a carefully worked out plan from the outset, quite contrary to the assertion of the Japanese side that the Emperor of Korea entrusted sovereignty to Japan. Terauchi faithfully implemented the scenario of the Emperor and the Cabinet of Japan in the course of the annexation.

The "Korea-Japan annexation" was a direct product of the Japanese authorities' long-cherished ambition for aggression.

After the "Korea-Japan annexation" the Japanese reactionaries produced "commemorative postcard".

The postcard carried "Song of Japan-Korea annexation" hailing the annexation, 2 000 years-old desire. It also carried "commemorative map" showing that the territory is bigger than that of Austria-Hungary and the population greater than that of Germany. The "map" marked Korea and Japan in the same color and edited on it was a picture of surroundings of Sungrye Gate over which a sun flag was seen.

The "Monument to Japan-Korea Annexation" was erected in 1934 by the "Black Dragon Society", an ultra-right terrorist organization of Japan. Inscribed on its back side were letters "We have occupied Korea, a pending issue since the dawn of history".

The "Korea-Japan annexation" was, in the true sense of the word, a hideous usurpation of sovereignty and the most outrageous state terrorism the Japanese government and military committed by mobilizing armed forces.

The issue of the "Korea-Japan annexation", the state-sponsored crime committed by the Japanese authorities, should have been settled right after Japan's defeat.

But Japan has not admitted the injustice of the "Korea-Japan annexation" but totally falsified the historical facts for 65 years.

The ruling and opposition parties and the academic circle of Japan are channeling main efforts into insisting on the "justice" of the annexation.

What should not be overlooked is that the Japanese rulers in recent statements issued on the centenary of the "Korea-Japan annexation" did not utter apology and reparation for the crimes committed against the DPRK and the Korean people in the past.

Worse still, the Liberal Democratic Party in a statement said that the annexation was based on the assessment made under international law and Japan remains unchanged in its stand.

In a nutshell, it is a very shameless act of trying to justify the annexation even in 2010 though it brought distress to the Korean nation after Japan seized its sovereignty in the last century.

After inflicting tremendous damage on the Korean people through the hideous state terrorism unprecedented in history and the moves for obliterating the Korean nation, Japan blustered this time that it remains unchanged in its stand on the annexation. This is another politically-motivated hideous swindle.

Such attitude of Japan is another unpardonable crime against the DPRK and the Korean people.

The Japanese authorities are totally denying, distorting and whitewashing the 40-odd-year-long colonial rule over Korea while advocating the "justice" of the annexation. This is prompted by their wrong attitude to evade the settlement of its past crimes.

It is foolish of the Japanese authorities to try to conceal the crime-woven history and dodge the settlement of their past wrongdoings.

Japan, the assailant, has a legal and moral obligation to make honest apology and reparation for all the past crimes to the DPRK and the latter, the victim, has the right to wrest reparation from the former for all the damage done to it in the past on the principle recognized by international law and according to international usage.

Japan's settlement of its past is its top priority task in settling the pending issues between the DPRK and Japan and herein lies the prospect for improving the DPRK-Japan relations.

The normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations is a matter that may allow Japan to evade it, but it is the historic responsibility and unavoidable legal duty of Japan to redeem its past crimes.

The Japanese authorities should recognize its state responsibility for the past crimes and make reparation for them under any circumstances.

Japan's act of evading the settlement of its past is, in essence, a revelation of its ambition for reinvasion to repeat the crime-woven history and realize the old dream of "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" at any cost.

The Japanese authorities remain unchanged in this ambition.

All facts go to clearly prove that the Japanese militarists are dreaming of the second "Korea-Japan annexation" and seeking to realize the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" on its basis.

If Japan tries to impose the second "Korea-Japan annexation" upon this land, the army and people of the DPRK will mount an all-round attack on the islands of Japan by mobilizing all the deterrent forces for self-defence and force it pay for all the crimes it committed against the Korean nation for centuries.