The memorandum says:

The Imjin War was an unjust war of aggression premeditatedly ignited by the samurais with an ambition for territorial expansion, pursuant to their policy of overseas aggression and a war of murder and plunder unprecedented in the history from A to Z.

The samurai regime headed by Hideyoshi Toyotomi premeditatedly started the war with an ambition to invade Korea and other Asian countries and grab more lands and wealth.

Through the War, the Toyotomi regime sought to evade the spearhead of the anti-feudal struggle of the Japanese people, calm down the discontents of the samurais with plunder and accumulation of wealth, militarily and economically weaken the forces of the opposition feudal lords while gratifying the ambition of big feudal lords and traders for more lands and wealth.

Toyotomi regime hastened the preparations for a war of aggression under a plan. Towards 1590 it stepped up the preparations for a war of aggression against Korea in real earnest and Toyotomi gave an order for invading Korea in February 1592.

The aggressor army units began to move from March 1592. According to the "general policy" issued on March 13, the number of the first invasion force numbered more than 200,000.

The samurais ignited the Imjin War by attacking Pusan on April 13, 1592. Consequently, the Korean people had to suffer in the vortex of war for seven years.

The memorandum recalled that during the war, samurais massacred Koreans in different parts of Korea and took away many of them to Japan for slave labor. They devastated land of Korea and plundered it of precious cultural assets at random.

During the first invasion they mercilessly killed Koreans, regardless of age or sex.

About 60,000-70,000 people were killed by samurais after the battle at Jinju Castle in June 1593.

During the second invasion, their mass killings of Koreans reached their height.

Toyotomi directly gave the instruction for massacres in Korea and encouraged them in perpetrating them.

During the war, the Japanese invaders recklessly abducted a lot of Koreans and forced them to slave labor and even sold them to other countries as slaves.

The Imjin War was also called "war for ceramic wares" as samurais looted lots of ceramic wares in Korea and abducted ceramic technicians and even garment and bean-curd technicians. They abducted a lot of Korean women, in particular.

A Japanese researcher said that those women drafted in such a manner were "comfort women for the Japanese army" 400 years ago. This proves that the sexual slavery condemned as Japan's hideous crime in the 20th century had been already committed by its ancestors hundreds of years ago.

The Japanese invaders abducted even young boys and girls.

According to the data made public by Japanese scholars, the number of the Korean abductees at that time was more than 100,000.

They destroyed everything and plundered all sorts of wealth in Korea.

After occupying Hansong, the capital, samurais burnt Kyongbok Palace and the Royal Ancestors' Shrine and opened the tombs of the 9th king and the 11th king to plunder the deceased's belongings. They even unhesitatingly burnt the coffins.

After occupying Pyongyang they burnt the Pubyok Pavilion and Sungin Temple dating back to the period of Koryo and destroyed many buildings including Yongsung Temple, Ryongwang Pavillion, Jinso Pavillion, Phungwol Pavillion, Taedong House and Chonghwa House at random. They burnt Hamhung Palace in Hamgyong Province, Sohyon Auditorium in Hwanghae Province and others and Mokchong House where Ri Song Gye lived before becoming a king and Songgyungwan Academy in Kaesong.

They burnt and took away precious cultural treasures and the original drafts of the True Records of the Ri Dynasty in Chunchu, Chungju and Songju temples disappeared. Only the original draft in Jonju Temple is preserved.

Almost all books published in Korea before the Imjin War were shipped to Japan and samurais took away even copper printing types and printer.

They also looted lots of art pieces. It is reported that most of the Buddhist artifacts are now in Japan. The Korean bells looted by samurais are scattered in different parts of Japan.

Japan is a criminal country as it imposed misfortune and sufferings upon the Korean people through aggression and war.

Nevertheless, the Japanese authorities have not yet sincerely reflected on the past crimes, but beautified the war of aggression and agitated militarism.

If Japan persists in the moves for reinvasion, oblivious of the disgrace and defeat it suffered in the last Imjin War, it will not be able to escape the strikes to be made by the Korean people to have the grudge pent-up for hundreds of years settled and the blows dealt by the army of Songun Korea.