Source: Overseas Network
Screenshot of Korean media report
On November 14, local time, Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of south Korea's ruling party, said in a meeting with US Senator John Osoff that the Korean Peninsula was annexed by Japan in 1910 because the United States recognized Japan's sphere of influence on the Korean Peninsula through the "Kantaro-Taft Agreement" through the "Katsura-Taft Agreement." In the face of this sudden "history lesson," the US congressman hurriedly changed the topic.
Lee Jae-ming poses with U.S. lawmakers
According to the East Asia Daily, Lee Jae-ming first said in the talks that thanks to the support and cooperation of the United States, South Korea has grown from a developing country and a former colonial country to a developed country in the field of global economy.
Lee Jae Ming
At this time, Li Zaiming turned sharply, saying that behind such fruitful results, there was also an unknown side. "Japan's annexation of South Korea was supported by the United States through the Katsura-Taft Agreement", "In the end, it was not the division of Japan's territory, but the division of the Korean Peninsula, as a victim of the war, which became the trigger for the war (the Korean War), which is an undeniable objective fact." ”
U.S. lawmakers turned the subject away
In the face of this sudden "history lesson," the US congressman hurriedly changed the topic and talked about the "contribution" of US soldiers in the Korean War.
According to South Korea's Newsis News Agency, in 1905, the U.S. delegation visited Japan and signed the Katsura-Taft Agreement with the Japanese side, in which the two sides recognized the control of the United States over the Philippines and Japan's control of the Korean Peninsula. In 1910, Japan forced the Korean government to sign the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty, formally annexing the entire Korean Peninsula and imposing brutal colonial rule. (Overseas Network Liu Qiang)