Prelude to the Next Dokdo Crisis?

The Great Dokdo War which holds the fate of all mankind within it’s balance may be entering a new crisis:

Korea has decided to push ahead with a scientific survey next week near Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan), setting the stage for another diplomatic confrontation with Japan.
The Maritime Affairs Ministry said yesterday that on Monday it would send a 2,500-ton ship to the islets, which Japan also claims and calls Takeshima, to conduct research on sea currents for about two weeks. The decision could aggravate the already knotty ties between the countries.
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Shinzo Abe, called on Korea to refrain from carrying out the planned survey. “It is important for both parties to respond to the issue over the scientific maritime survey by exercising self-restraint,” he said in a news conference in Tokyo yesterday.
The Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Japan’s maritime police would send patrol boats to the area if Korea goes ahead with the research.