Contrary to that, both South and North Korea have maintained the stance that the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty and all the related treaties were illegal and invalid from the beginning, and the Japanese rule, extending back to its occupation of Korea, was totally illegal and invalid, because the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty was illegally concluded.
それに対して、韓国・北朝鮮とも日韓併合条約は違法に結ばれた条約であるから同・条約と関連する条約のすべてが当初から違法・無効であり、日本の朝鮮領有にさかのぼってその統治がすべて違法・無効であるという立場を崩していない。