The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Emphasis is on me.
◆ 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 were prepared under the support of the International Exchange Foundation under the umbrella of the Korean government.
The Korean side was intended to establish the illegal theory of Japan's Annexation of Korea on the international stage.
Here, the controversies were held by American, British, Korean, and Japanese scholars gathered.
The Korean side first insisted on how Japan illegally annexed Korea.
However, Professor J. Crawford of Cambridge University, who was an expert in international law, made a strong legal argument.
In other words, ‘As for countries that cannot survive by themselves, it was common for surrounding countries to incorporate the country from the perspective of international order, then Japan - Korea Treaty of 1910 was not illegal under international law’ it insisted.
Naturally, the Korean side fiercely opposed and claimed that it was ‘forced to Japan’, but Professor J. Crawford said, ‘The argument of illegality was forced since the First World War, as then, it does not become a problem.’, professor J. Crawford scolded the Korean side.
As a result, the Korean side gone away dropping their shoulders despondently. '
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