Korean Foreign Ministry Responds to Latest Dokdo Islets Claim from Japanese Diplomat

Here is the latest on the Dokdo front, just more of the same nonsense:

Foreign ministry spokesperson Lim Soo-suk speaks during a press briefing in Seoul, Jan. 16. Yonhap

Korea “strongly protests” Japan’s repeated claims to its easternmost islets of Dokdo, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, after Japan’s top diplomat renewed the claim in a speech before the parliament.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa reiterated the claims to the islets, called Takeshima in Japan, during a speech on this year’s foreign policy objectives in a parliamentary session earlier in the day.

“The government strongly protests against the Japanese government’s repeated unfair territorial claims over Dokdo, which is clearly our own territory historically, geographically and under international law,” ministry spokesperson Lim Soo-suk said in a commentary.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but the Japanese government should put a gag order on their governmental officials making Dokdo claims. South Korea is never, ever going to give up Dokdo to Japan and to keep bringing this issue up publicly is not helpful when the Japanese government is trying to strengthen relations with the ROK.