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| | donga.com [english donga] |
 | | “Ito re-appeared and prompted that the treaty must be signed, but I thought it would be better to delay the signing date to buy some time for public consensus, so I came out of the conference room to meet the king, but I was forcefully taken to Ito by a Japanese interpreter. |
 | | However, recently a domestic newspaper made headline news by saying, “The evidence to prove that the Eulsa Treaty was forced by Japan has been found after a century,” without knowledge of Dong-A Ilbo’s earlier publication. |
 | | Since then research on the treaty entered a new phase where in May 1992, Yi Tae-jin, a professor at Seoul Nation University, discovered that there was no title of the treaty mentioned in the original document, and that there was no document to confirm the then emperor’s ratification of it. |
| english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2005111752288 (650 words) |
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