S. Korea protests against Japan's territorial claims to disputed islets

South Korea restored its sovereignty over Dokdo after the Korean Peninsula's liberation from the 1910-45 Japanese colonisation. - AFP

SEOUL (Xinhua): South Korea on Friday protested against Japan's renewed territorial claims to the disputed islets lying halfway between the two countries, called Dokdo by South Korea and Takeshima by Japan.

The South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement that the government strongly protests against the Japanese government's repeated inclusion of unjust sovereignty claims over Dokdo through Japan's 2022 defence white paper released earlier in the day.