정부, 日방위백서 '독도 영유권' 주장에 강력 항의S. Korea urges Japan to drop its repeated claim

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(2nd LD) S. Korea urges Japan to drop its repeated claims to Dokdo in defense white paper

정부, 日방위백서 '독도 영유권' 주장에 강력 항의

Kim Seung-yeon Diplomacy 20:32 July 12, 2024 Yonhap News

https://youtu.be/BLkqct0ASU0?si=h_-z2uEGVqwoBLBd

(ATTN: REWRITES lead; UPDATES with more details in paras 5-6; ADDS photo)
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By Kim Seung-yeon
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SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea strongly protested Friday after Japan restated its territorial claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo as the foreign and defense ministries called in senior officials at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to lodge a complaint.
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The move came as the Japanese government adopted the 2024 defense white paper at a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day, in which it reiterated the argument that Takeshima, the Japanese name for Dokdo, is part of its own territory and the issue over the territorial claims to the set of outcroppings "still remains unresolved."
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Dokdo has long been a recurring source of tension between the two neighbors, as Tokyo continues to make the sovereignty claims in its policy papers, public statements and school textbooks.
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South Korea maintains a small police detachment on the islets, effectively controlling them.
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This photo shows the page in Japan's latest defense white paper showing South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo marked with a blue circle just above the northwest of Japan on July 12, 2024. (Yonhap)
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Kim Sang-hoon, director general for Asian and Pacific affairs, called in Taisuke Mibae, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to protest against Tokyo continuing to make false claims about Dokdo.
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Earlier in the day, the defense ministry summoned a defense attache from the embassy to protest Japan's move and called for the immediate correction and future prevention of such actions.
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"We strongly protest against Japan's unjust claims to Dokdo, which is clearly our inherent territory historically, geographically and by international law, and we urge Japan to retract the statement immediately," Lim Soo-suk, foreign ministry spokesperson, said in a commentary.
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South Korea will take stern action against any action by Japan in relation to Dokdo and Tokyo's claims to the islets do little to change the fact that it belongs to South Korea, Lim said.
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Lim added that Japan also should realize that its Dokdo claims do not help efforts to move bilateral relations forward in a future-oriented manner.
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Last month, South Korea's foreign ministry dismissed Japan's protest over South Korea's routine maritime survey around the rocky islets.
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Taisuke Mibae, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, walks into the South Korean foreign ministry's headquarters on July 12, 2024, as the ministry called him in to protest against Tokyo's repeated claims to Dokdo in its defense white paper. (Yonhap)
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정부, 日방위백서 '독도 영유권' 주장에 강력 항의

2024-07-12 21:00 연합뉴스

https://youtu.be/BLkqct0ASU0?si=h_-z2uEGVqwoBLBd

일본이 방위백서에서 독도에 대한 영유권을 거듭 주장한 데 대해 우리 정부는 강력 항의하며 즉각 철회를 촉구했습니다.

외교부는 오늘(12일) 대변인 명의의 논평을 내고 일본의 억지 주장이 "우리 주권에 하등의 영향도 미치지 못한다"며 단호히 대응할 것이라고 강조했습니다.

또한 미바에 다이스케 주한 일본총괄공사를 초치해 강력히 항의했습니다.

국방부도 국제정책관이 주한 일본 방위주재관을 국방부로 초치해 즉각적 시정과 향후 중단을 촉구했다고 밝혔습니다.

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