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Japanese Embassy Sends Back Moon’s New Year Gift over Dokdo Image Box

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 [...]

South Korea Condemns Japan’s Renewed Claims to Dokdo

SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea voiced strong protests Wednesday against Japan’s latest claims to its easternmost islets of Dokdo in an education manual. The foreign ministry also said that it called in a Japanese Embassy official to lodge its complaints with what it sees as “repeated” and “unjustified” territorial claims.”We strongly protest [...]