SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted regular military drills earlier this week to enhance the defense of its easternmost islets of Dokdo, an informed source said Friday, following Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings in a revised security document. Personnel of the Navy and Coast Guard staged the biannual drills [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo were not named on iPhone maps in the U.S., Britain and 20 other countries, according to a professor in Seoul Thursday, amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings. Dokdo has long been a recurring source of [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government strongly condemned Japan on Friday for laying repeated claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defense white paper. “(The government) strongly protests against Japan’s repetition of its sovereignty claim over Dokdo, clearly an integral part of the Korean territory in terms of [...]
GOYANG, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Aerospace University said Tuesday that an unmanned solar-powered aircraft that it had developed succeeded in a flight from the mainland to the easternmost islets of Dokdo and back, just in time to celebrate the school’s 70th anniversary. A research team from the school developed a mini-sized solar-powered [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government lodged a strong protest with Japan Friday against Tokyo’s repeated assertion that Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, belong to the country. Seoul took issue with Tokyo’s first annual report on foreign policy and activities under the administration of Prime Minister [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has provided scientific proof that reckless overfishing was the main cause behind the extinction of sea lions on South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. According to a study conducted at Pusan National University, the number of sea lions was estimated to have plunged to 8,500, less [...]
ULLEUNG, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A local government overseeing Dokdo has been struggling to cope with the prolonged absence of its sole registered resident on the easternmost South Korean islets, officials said Wednesday. Dokdo, located just 90 kilometers east of the East Sea island of Ulleung, has been under effective control of South Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese Embassy in Seoul has refused to accept South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Lunar New Year gift, claiming the gift’s box bears an image of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, Japanese news reports said Saturday. South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae had sent a gift box [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted regular military drills to strengthen the defense of its easternmost islets of Dokdo last week, multiple sources said Wednesday, amid lingering tensions caused by Japan’s persistent claims to the East Sea outcroppings. The country’s military staged the drills to ensure their readiness to fend off potential [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held an annual ceremony Friday to commemorate a successful 1954 operation by the country’s volunteer fighters to defend the easternmost islets of Dokdo against intruding Japanese ships, the veterans affairs ministry said. A civilian foundation honoring the group of 33 fighters hosted the event at a national [...]