The Invalidity of the 1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty and the Plain Defects of the Corollaries in Japanese Assertions of the Sovereign title to the Dokdo Island

Young K. Kim, Ryohae Institute

Abstract

In view of the rule of international law, the Japanese control upon the Korean territories during these 26 years could only been precisely defined as a belligerent occupation. No sovereign title or any legally valid title had ever been entitled to Japan, by this belligerent occupation. So, when the subjection by the Japanese warlords ended, the liberated Korea had immediately resumed the national liberty and the proud cultural heritage. Any vestiges of Japanese control over to the Korean territories should have been eliminated completely, and at once. Removing Japanese warlords from the Korean territory was the only condition for the attainment of national control over to the entire territories, in the part of Korean nation. Any denouncements of the Japanese titles to the Korean territories were never ever necessary for the liberation of the free and independent nation, Korea, because any such titles were legally never been formed.