Despicable Acts of Obliterating Korean Nation

Human history records not a few crimes committed by those who invaded other countries and perpetrated atrocities against their peoples. However, the past crimes the Japanese imperialists committed during their military occupation of Korea are unprecedented in history for their brutality and inhumanity.
Japanese imperialists occupied militarily Korea from 1905 to 1945, turning it into a “large prison”, and perpetrated numerous inhumane crimes to obliterate the Korean nation.
They slaughtered over a million innocent Koreans, forcibly drafted 8.4 million young and middle-aged Korean men to the battlefields and drudgery, and reduced 200 000 Korean women to sex slaves of their army. They also deprived Koreans of their written and spoken language and forced them to change their names in Japanese.
All these atrocities the Japanese imperialists committed against Koreans were aimed at obliterating the Korean nation: By massacring the Koreans they tried to break the bloodline of the Korean nation and by compelling them not to use their language and change their names they attempted to eradicate their national spirit.
Another evidence of such crimes is drawing the attention of the international community. It is the iron stakes driven into major spots in celebrated mountains of Korea. Korea has many mountains, so from olden times the Korean people loved and boasted of their scenic mountains, observed their geographical features and applied them favourably to the law of human world. Old sayings go among the Koreans that where there are beautiful mountains, there are clear streams and that such scenic places produce great persons and brilliant generals. The Japanese came to know that the Koreans attached great importance to mountains, sanctified celebrated mountains and prayed mountains for producing talents who would shoulder the destiny of the country and nation. Therefore, in order to break the spirit and wish of the Korean nation, they resorted to every wretched means of splitting mountain into two or driving the heated iron stakes into the vital points of the mountains. They drove iron stakes into major spots of all mountain ranges stretching out from the summit of Mt. Paektu, the ancestral mountain of the Korean nation.
Three iron stakes were driven into the umbilicus part of the mountain in the Kaesong area, the middle part of Korea. Such iron stakes were driven even into the rocks that carried the legends of Koreans.

The Japanese poured boiling sulfur into the holes before tamping them with cement in a bid to keep the stakes fixed there forever. There is a clear sign of the Japanese attempt to break into two parts the side of a mountain at the back of a village in Wonjong-ri, Kaesong. There are found in several places huges rock weighing about 10 tons each. Those rocks were brought there from the distant places to cut off the throat of the mountain. Yamashita Tomoyuke, a war criminal executed in 1946, confessed that such iron stakes had been driven into over 360 major posts of the mountains throughout Korea. This was the deliberate and national crime of Japan in every aspect. It would be beyond capacity for a private person or an individual group to appoint the spots to be driven with iron stakes, by surveying high mountain ranges, to carry iron stakes, working tools, and even cement and sulfur and to drill holes–all these difficult and laborious projects.
The point underlying Japan’s despicable acts without precedents in human history was that it was aimed at breaking the Koreans’ spirit and frustrating their hope for national resuscitation and the birth of great man who would liberate them from the Japanese military occupation. That’s why the Japanese imperialists didn’t conceal the fact of hammering iron stakes or splitting the mountains into two, but spread the rumour for themselves.
The international community expresses its shock and indignation over the unheard-of acts the Japanese committed in the past to obliterate the Korean nation.