South Korea on Wednesday urged Japan to promptly delete a Youtube video claiming its sovereignty on the Dokdo islets, known as Takeshima in Japan, calling the action as anachronistic and provocative.
"We strongly protest against the Japanese government trying to damage our dominium over the Dokdo islets as Japan's Foreign Ministry produced a video that makes nonsensical claims on our territorial islets and distributed it on the Internet," Seoul's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, urging its neighboring country to delete the video immediately.
The 87-second-long video, which was posted on the Youtube a week ago, claimed that Japan set up its dominium on the islets in the 17th century and it was reconfirmed in 1905, saying that South Korea has taken illegal control over the rocky outcroppings since 1952 when then President Rhee Syngman drew the so-called Syngman Line.
Seoul's Foreign Ministry called the video posting as non- historical and anachronistic, noting that such provocative action has been a major stumbling block to enhancing diplomatic ties between Seoul and Tokyo.
Source: NewsOnJapan
