"The government of the Republic of Korea strongly protests Japan s unsubstantiated claims, contained in the updated National Security Strategy, about the territorial affiliation of the Dokdo Islands, which are clearly a territory of the Republic of Korea historically, geographically and in accordance with international law," the statement says
The Biden administration’s efforts to use the G-7 summit meeting to soothe relations between South Korea and Japan were unsuccessful because of long-standing sensitive historic issues and sovereignty disputes between America’s Asian allies. Washington had encouraged a bilateral meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
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South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo were not named on iPhone maps in the US, Britain and 20 other countries, a professor said here on Thursday, amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan's renewed claims to the East Sea .