Seoul, April 16 (IANS) South Korea on Tuesday expressed its robust opposition in direction of Japan after the latter launched an annual diplomatic report that reasserted its territorial claims over the easternmost islets of Dokdo.
The dispute over the sovereignty of Dokdo has been a longstanding situation between the 2 nations, and this current transfer by Japan has solely escalated the stress between them.
To protest the report, South Korea’s international ministry referred to as in Taisuke Mibae, the deputy chief of mission on the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, Yonhap information company reported.
The declare, strongly disputed by South Korea, which has lengthy maintained efficient management of Dokdo with the everlasting stationing of safety personnel there, was included within the 2024 Diplomatic Bluebook that was reported to the Cupboard by International Minister Yoko Kamikawa.
On this 12 months’s report, Japan continued to say that Dokdo is Japanese territory traditionally and below worldwide legislation, and that South Korea is carrying on with an “unlawful occupation” of the world.
“The federal government strongly protests in opposition to the Japanese authorities’s repeated unfair territorial claims over Dokdo, which is clearly our personal territory traditionally, geographically and below worldwide legislation, as introduced in its Diplomatic Bluebook launched on April 16, and urges (Japan) to withdraw it instantly,” international ministry spokesperson Lim Soo-suk stated in a commentary.
Lim added that such claims by Japan don’t have any impression by any means on South Korea’s sovereignty over the islets, that are Korea’s inherent territory.
South Korea has lengthy maintained the place that Dokdo is an integral a part of Korean territory traditionally, geographically and below worldwide legislation.
Within the report, Japan once more took situation with the South Korean Supreme Courtroom’s ruling that ordered Japanese firms to compensate South Koreans pressured into wartime labor throughout Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule.
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