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North Korea blasts Japan over claim to Dokdo
Posted : 2021-07-17 09:49 Dokdo / Korea Times file
North Korea lashed out at Japan, Saturday, for its claim to Dokdo, two South Korean islets in the East Sea calling it a shameless act. The Japan sports world has reached the extremes in its shameless act designed to seize Tok Island, part of the inviolable territory of Korea, even in defiance of the sacred idea and spirit of the Olympic movement, a spokesman for the North s Olympic Committee said in a statement carried by the country s official Korean Central News Agency.
The statement comes amid a renewed row between Seoul and Tokyo over the latter s claims to the South Korea-controlled islets.
US hopes for peaceful resolution of Dokdo dispute between Korea, Japan
Posted : 2021-07-14 09:33
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The United States hopes for a peaceful resolution to the territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan over a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the East Sea, called Dokdo, a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday.
The spokesperson, however, said the U.S. will not take any sides. The United States does not take a position regarding the sovereignty of the Liancourt Rocks, the State Department official said, referring to Dokdo islets, called Takeshima in Japan. The question of the sovereignty of these islands is for the ROK and Japan to resolve peacefully.
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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.