South Korea has formally protested a Japanese government-linked event marking “Takeshima Day”, calling it an unjust claim over territory it administers.
In a statement, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it “strongly objected” to the ceremony hosted by Shimane Prefecture and criticised the attendance of a senior Japanese government official. Seoul urged Tokyo to abolish the event.
The disputed islets are known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. They lie in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and remain a longstanding flashpoint linked to Japan’s 1910–1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
The ministry stated Dokdo is South Korea’s sovereign territory “historically, geographically and under international law”, and called on Japan to withdraw what it described as unfounded
The territory lies in fertile fishing grounds and may sit above enormous deposits of natural gas hydrate that could be worth billions of dollars, Seoul has said.
ℹ️ Reuters
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