日本国島根県竹島 Takeshima, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Five months before Japan and ROK inked "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea" on June 22, 1965 in Tokyo, Mr. Ichiro Kono of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan and Mr. Chung Il-kwon, Prime Minister of ROK held a secret meeting, in which they discussed Takeshima issue in relation to the treaty and reached a secret agreement on Takeshima issue as a pre-condition for concluding the treaty.
The agreement says that as both Japan and South Korea interpret Takeshima issue as ”having been settled without any settlement”, nothing will be therefore mentioned in the treaty for achieving normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and ROK, thereby putting aside and ignoring Takeshima issue forever.
However, ROK has strengthened control over Takeshima, either violating or abandoning the secret agreement as a pre-condition for concluding "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea". And, even ROK president Lee illegally landed on Takeshima islets on August 10, 2012, so as to demonstrate ROK's control over Takeshima, thereby possibly unilaterally nullifying the treaty.
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During the 36 years of peaceful annexation of Korea by Japan, Mr. Chung Il-kwon proudly served as a Military Police officer (Kenpei=憲兵将校) of the Great Imperial Japanese Army after finishing his education at The Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Ichigaya, Tokyo where International Military Tribunal for the Far East was held in 1946. He later worked for Walton Harris Walker, an American army officer and the first commander of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War and served as prime minister of ROK under the first South Korean president Syngman Rhee.
A Photo of The Imperial Japanese Army Academy taken when established in 1907
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