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◆ On 16th November 2001, the International Academic Conference was hosted by the Asia Center of Harvard University in the United States of America.
It was said that Korean scholars led the initiative with the support of the International Exchange Foundation under the umbrella of the Korean government.
The Korean side intended to settle the illegality of the Japan-Korea annexation on the international stage.
A controversy took place here with American, British, Korean, and Japanese scholars gathered.
The Korean side first insisted on how Japan illegally annexed Korea.
However, Professor J. Crawford of the University of Cambridge, an expert in international law, made a strong legal argument.
In other words, 'As for countries that can not live by themselves, surrounding countries have taken over the country from the perspective of international order at that time, and the Japan-Korea annexation treaty was not illegal under international law', he insisted.
As a matter of course, the Korean side fiercely protested and claimed that it was 'forced to Japan', but Professor J. Crawford said, 'Discussion that it was illegal as it was forced, in the one World War I since then, it will not be a problem as then', it said that he thundered out.
As a result, the Korean side is being low spirits with dropped shoulders, it is said that they left. (P 106)
It has become clear to the people that our country is surrounded by alarming national groups of abduction (North Korea), Island robber (South Korea), and Maritime Stealer (China)
