Seoul’s Foreign Ministry Protests Japan’s Territorial Claims

South Korea has slammed Japan and summoned its senior diplomat to Seoul on Tuesday.

This comes as Tokyo authorized new high school textbooks that renew its false territorial claims to Korea’s Dokdo Islets.

Seoul’s foreign ministry on Tuesday strongly protested to the Japanese government about the approval of Japanese high school textbooks that contain unilateral claims to South Korean territory and called for an immediate correction.

The ministry made it clear once again that the Dokdo Islets belong to South Korea historically, geographically and under international law.

It also called for Japan to educate its young people in accordance with the same apologetic manner that Japan expressed regarding its system of wartime sexual slavery so that there can be a constructive and future-oriented relationship.

Seoul’s foreign ministry summoned a senior official at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to lodge a complaint.