South Korea’s protection ministry stated in June that its navy performed common drills within the waters surrounding Takeshima in Shimane Prefecture. The Japanese authorities has repeatedly protested the drills and requested them to cease.
On the seventh, Director-General Funakoshi of the Foreign Ministry’s Asia and Oceania Bureau referred to as Kim Jang-hyun, deputy minister to the South Korean embassy in Tokyo, saying, “Takeshima is clearly an inherent territory of Japan both in light of historical facts and under international law. , this training by the South Korean military is absolutely unacceptable and extremely regrettable.”
The Japanese Embassy in Seoul additionally lodged the same protest with the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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