Wednesday, 2 June 2021
The Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC) has sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pressure Japan to remove a reference to South Korea-controlled islands as Japanese territory on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games website.
The KSOC has sent a letter asking the IOC to actively mediate the ongoing dispute.
Known neutrally as the Liancourt Rocks - as named by French whalers in 1849 - Japan and South Korea both claim the islands as their own territory, as well as North Korea.
South Korea controls the islands, which are known as Dokdo in the country, while Japan refers to them as Takeshima.
1973 North Korea joins the World Health Organization. South Korea acquired membership in 1949. 1980 South Korea s then military government, led by Chun Doo-hwan, expands its enforcement of emergency martial law nationwide and arrests two leading opposition leaders, Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-pil, on charges of rebellion, conspiracy and illegal profiteering. The government orders Kim Dae-jung to be put to death but later commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. Kim later won the Nobel Peace Prize during his presidency in 2000 for his reconciliation efforts with North Korea. 2007 South and North Korea conduct test-runs of two railways one linking Seoul with Sinuiju, a North Korean border city with China, and the other linking Wonsan, a city on the eastern coast of the North, to Goseong, an eastern coastal city of the South.