Liancourt Rocks dispute Japan. In 1954, Japan proposed a reference to the International Court of Justice, which South Korea rejected, believing that the Liancourt Rocks are irrefutably South Korean territories, and thus should not be dealt through diplomatic negotiations or judicial settlement between South Korea and Japan. There are conflicting interpretations about the historical state of sovereignty over the islets. Korean claims are partly based on references to a Korean island called "Usan-do" in various historical records, maps and encyclopedias such as the "Samguk Sagi", "Annals of the Joseon Dynasty", "Dongguk Yeoji Seungnam" (), and "Dongguk munheon bigo" (). According to the Korean
German–Romanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries (1939) German–Romanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries (1939) The German-Romanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries was a bilateral economic agreement signed between the German and the Romanian governments in Bucharest on 23 March 1939. The agreement established German control over most aspects of Romanian economy, and thus forcing the Romanian government to join the Axis Powers at a later date. According to a contemporary report of the Time Magazine, "in no instance of modern times has one State made such humiliating, far-reaching economic concessions to another" as Romania to