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History Clearly Shows Dokdo Belongs to Korea(The Korea Times, 08.7.29)
- Date 2008.07.31
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History Clearly Shows Dokdo Belongs
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This is the second in a series of articles highlighting Dokdo’s history, environment, old maps and folklore, possibility of the international court decision on the East Sea islets and law of the sea. The series is the joint project of The Korea Times and the Northeast Asian History Foundation. ― ED.
By Michael Ha
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"There is not a single prominent historian in Japan who claims Dokdo is Japanese territory. Not one! There are no major academic dissertation papers from Japan that identify Dokdo as part of Japan historically either."
That"s according to Choi Suh-myun, a leading academic who has spent the past 50 years researching and studying the histories of Korea and Japan. Choi, a professor emeritus at Myongji University in Seoul and chairman of the International Korea Research Institute, spent decades in Japan before permanently moving back to Korea in the 1990s. He has long been one of the staunchest defenders of the Dokdo islets as Korean territory.
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