Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- It has been 120 years since the Japanese imperialists fabricated the Ulsa Five-point Treaty in a gangster-like way in the last century.

The Ulsa Five-point Treaty which reduced the Korean people into stateless ones and imposed misfortune and suffering on them is an illegal and fraud document cooked up by the Japanese imperialists by force of arms on November 17, 1905.

At that time, the Japanese imperialists forced Emperor Kojong and ministers of the government to unconditionally accept the original Ulsa Five-point Treaty already drafted by them in a bid to deprive Korea of its sovereignty.

When Emperor Kojong stubbornly refused it, the Japanese imperialists encircled the inside and outside of the imperial palace manifoldly with many armed forces and staged a military drill before the palace.

In this situation, the ministers of the feudal Korean government decided to reject the conclusion of the treaty at the ministerial meeting on the treaty held in the imperial palace on Nov. 17.

Upon hearing the news that the negotiations reached a breakdown, Hirobumi Ito, a ringleader of the invasion of Korea, went into the palace, made the ministers of the government gather in a room and forced them to approve the treaty.

In such coercive way, the Japanese imperialists unilaterally declared that the treaty was concluded. In order to give semblance of "legality" to the treaty, they did not hesitate to commit a base act of stealing the seal of the foreign minister and stamping it on the document.

The Japanese imperialists deprived Korea of its sovereignty with a completely illegal document which had no appearance as a treaty document. And they had inflicted vast human, material and mental damages upon the Korean people for more than 40 years which can not be compensated for anything.

However, Japan has still refused to admit, make an apology and reparation for its heinous crimes committed against the Korean people in the past, letting loose a spate of sophism that its colonial rule over Korea is "legally valid".

The more desperately Japan pursues its hostile policy toward the DPRK, making every effort to deny its past crimes of aggression, the stronger the Korean people's revenge on it to make it pay a dear price for its crimes is. -0-