In the aftermath of the Korean War, a small series of Islands known as Dokdo to the Koreans and Takishima to the Japanese became a source of political tensions and nationalistic pride. Both nations now claim the small, largely uninhabitable as their own and appear to be on a political and potential military collision course over their control. After reading both perspectives from “The Issue of Takeshima by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs” and South Korea’s “Dokdo Research Institute”, which country do you think offers the most compelling argument for “ownership” and why?
