Koreans Protest Japanese Celebration of Takeshima Day With Nothing Crazy Occurring

The yearly Takeshima Day nonsense has concluded with nothing much of interest occurring.  I miss the good old days of the Great Dokdo War.  I can still remember the hard days when those of us in Korea had to stock up on food and supplies to survive the initial declaration of war from President Roh.  We made it through multiple cease firesclose calls, and even the failure of the Daemado campaign.  Times had been so desperate that even talk about recruiting North Korea to fight off the evil Japanese Imperialists was announced.  Though the casualties on the Korean side have been heavy at times, through it all the brave defenders of Dokdo have continued thwart the massive Japanese armada descending on Dokdo.  We were also treated back then to such Korean patriots like Flag Eater ManChung Dong-youngthe Finger Chopping Lady, the Knife in the Gut ManWeed Killer Man, the Dokdo Riders, and most importantly that great general of all things Dokdo, Bee-Man.  Now all we have is this:

A group of students rallies in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2016 to protest Japan’s renewed claim over South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo in the East Sea, known as Takeshima in the neighboring country. The rally’s timing marks “Takeshima Day,” a holiday that Japan’s Shimane prefectural government has observed annually on Feb. 22 since 2005, to call attention to the sovereignty claims on the islets by Japan. (Yonhap)

South Korea condemned Japan’s dispatch of a senior government official Monday to a local event aimed at publicizing its claim to Dokdo, a pair of outcroppings in the East Sea.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry stressed that Dokdo is South Korea’s territory historically, geographically, and under international law.

It called on Japan to immediately stop such a territorial provocation and “humbly face up to its history” of aggression and imperialism.

The ministry called in Hideo Suzuki, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to deliver a message of protest. Lee Sang-deok, director-general handling Northeast Asian affairs at the ministry, had a closed-door meeting with Suzuki.

Earlier in the day, the Shinzo Abe administration sent Yasuyuki Sakai, parliamentary vice minister of the Cabinet Office, to the controversial yearly event hosted by the Shimane Prefecture.

In 2005, the western prefecture, which claims administrative sovereignty over the islets, designated Feb. 22 as “Takeshima Day.” Takeshima is the Japanese name for Dokdo.  [Yonhap]

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setnaffa
8 years ago

If married couples can’t get along, why would we expect people who argue about nose-tombs from the 16th Century to be able to amicably settle their differences? Besides, the agitators are paid by Iran, China, and North Korea. They have no reason to give up their salaries.

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