1. The government of the Republic of Korea strongly protests the Japanese government’s sending of a senior central government official again to the so-called “Dokdo Day” ceremony, hosted by a provincial government in Japan on February 22, though efforts are needed to open a new chapter in the ROK-Japan relations following the agreement on the “comfort women” issue reached between the ROK and Japan at the end of last year. The ROK government demands that the Japanese government should prevent this from occurring again.

2. The ROK government strongly urges the Japanese government to immediately stop any provocation over Dokdo, which is clearly an integral part of the ROK’s territory in terms of history, geography and international law, and to humbly face up to Imperial Japan’s history of aggression.


* unofficial translation