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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:47 PM
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S. Korea-Japan Islets Dispute Escalates
By BURT HERMAN
Associated Press Writer
March 18, 2005

The territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan over uninhabited islets in the Sea of Japan escalated Friday when a South Korean city council passed a resolution staking Seoul's claim to other islands controlled by its neighbor.

The move by the Masan city council came two days after a Japanese regional government asserted Tokyo's claims to the Korean-held outcroppings - called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese. <snip>

The Japanese embassy in central Seoul has become a venue for daily demonstrations. On Friday, a man poured paint thinner on himself and jumped into a fire where protesters were burning Japanese flags and boxes symbolizing Japanese goods, police said. He was hospitalized but his life was not in danger, police said.

Earlier this week, two protesters cut off their own fingers. <snip>

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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 07:24 PM
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1. for those who think the Korean "problem" will go with Kim Jong Il
A unified Korea presents all kinds of threats to its overbearing great power neighbors. Korea will go nuclear no matter what happens to N.Korea and Kim Jong Il. Get used to it.
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