Dokdo Roundup
It appears my hunch that the whole Dokto crisis is about fishing rights may in fact be correct. Andy over at the Flying Yangban has things covered from Korea while the Japundit has things covered from Japan. The Marmot has also put together some quality information on this topic.
A further development was that the city of Masan just declared Daemado Day. From the Marmot:
The city council of the port town of Masan, South Gyeongsang Province just passed ? by a vote of 29 to 1 ? an ordinace declaring June. 19 ?Daema Island Day.? June 19, as everyone knows, is the day in 1419(1st year of the reign of King Sejong) when Gen. Lee Jong-mu left Masan Harbor to launch his expedition to conquer Daema Island, known to those cretins on the other side of the East Sea as Tsushima. I don?t have time at the moment to translate the ordinance or go into the history, but suffice it to say it appears the crafty city councilmen borrowed the language of Shimane Prefecture?s ?Takeshima Day? ordinance.
Pretty good move by the city of Masan. I wonder what is going to happen next? Maybe Mongolia will claim Cheju-do since they once owned Cheju during the height of the Mongol Empire. However, that is about as likely to happen as Korea ever giving up Dokto.
