After occupying Korea early in the 20th century, the Japanese imperialists hammered iron piles on its famous mountains and strongholds in a sinister bid to depress the spirit of the Korean nation.

In 1912 they set up an institute on history of Korea whose mission was to write a pseudo book "Doctrine on rule over Korea". They made a number of Japanese scholars study the Koreans' spirit and compile a study report on geomancy in Korea in order to assimilate Koreans to Japanese.

After all, a book "Divination in Korea" appeared in 1931. In this course the Japanese imperialists came to know that the Koreans had regarded famous mountains as divine, entrusting the birth of a great person guiding the nation to those mountains.

In order to deprive the Koreans of such soul, they employed all possible means, destroying mountains or driving in iron piles on the top of major mountains including Mt. Paektu.

According to a testimony of Tomoyuki Yamashita who was punished as a war criminal in 1946, the Japanese imperialists drove more than 360 iron piles in famous mountains of Korea.

Such hideous crimes by Japan can never be erased, and they should be atoned without fail.