Japanese Think Tank Claims U.S. Air Force Map Proves Dokdo is Not Korean Territory

Here is the latest shot fired in the never-ending Dokdo debate:

This image from the website of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) shows part of an aerial chart made by the U.S. Air Force in 1954. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday refuted Japan’s renewed claims to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and warned of stern a response to the unsubstantiated claims.

“Dokdo is our inherent territory, historically, geographically and by international law,” the ministry said in a statement. “We want to make it clear that whatever attempt Japan makes cannot have an influence over our firm territorial sovereignty.”

Earlier in the day, the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) unveiled on its website aerial charts from the 1950s made by the United States Air Force in what it claimed to be evidence that South Korea was illegally occupying the islets.

The JIIA is a security think tank affiliated with Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also collects and studies materials related to their history, territory and sovereignty.

Yonhap

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2ID Doc
2ID Doc
4 years ago

Ok I’m curious…what use (other than a way for the Japanese & Koreans to verbally beat each other up) do the Laincourt Rocks have?

setnaffa
setnaffa
4 years ago

Doc, it’s the simple toddler’s game that all “woke” useful idiots use to alienate themselves from potential allies.

flyingsword
flyingsword
4 years ago

An US Air Force map is hardly a reliable source.

Korean Man
Korean Man
4 years ago

GIKorea, do you see that purple line with purple dots on the bottom right corner? Those are demarcation of EEZ’s – Korea on left, Japan on right. Did you do that yourself, considering you’re a pro-Japan right wing? Or did the Japanese deliberately cut off that part from the Japanese public view?

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