Visiting during the coronation ceremonies for Russian Tsar Nicholas II , the Japanese delegation discussed the growing friction over Korea , and proposed that the Korean peninsula be divided at the 38th parallel , should Japanese and Russian troops be forced to occupy Korea . The proposal was rejected , but the concept was resurrected by Soviet premier Joseph Stalin many years later at the Yalta Conference negotiations with the United States during World War II
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Yamagata–Lobanov Agreement