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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| I've heard it has something to do with fishing rights, but no one on earth can give me a certain response other than it has always been Korea's. I once saw a woman cut part of her finger off in Jongro over it, so I suppose there is something really profound about the place. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| I've heard it has something to do with fishing rights, but no one on earth can give me a certain response other than it has always been Korea's. I once saw a woman cut part of her finger off in Jongro over it, so I suppose there is something really profound about the place. |
Yeah, a profound hatred of Japan. |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| Takeshima sure is popular these days. |
Hahaah.
I got to get you some more run for that. |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| I've heard it has something to do with fishing rights, but no one on earth can give me a certain response other than it has always been Korea's. I once saw a woman cut part of her finger off in Jongro over it, so I suppose there is something really profound about the place. |
I wanna hear the story about the woman cutting off her finger, her reasons, and the aftereffects. |
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sqrlnutz123
Joined: 15 Jun 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Hopefully global warming will put the island under water and this silly fight can be done with. |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Hopefully global warming will put the island under water and this silly fight can be done with. |
But then Koreans will view the incident as a "national tragedy"; write songs and make movies about it while destitute lovers would try to sail out there to drown over the beloved submerged islands of Dokdo. |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| Hopefully global warming will put the island under water and this silly fight can be done with. |
They will just dump rocks to keep it built up. Those rocks give Korea mineral rights and a large fishing ground. Bonus they get to deny them to Japan. They already pump significant resources to bolster their claim. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| In all fairness on the issue- many antique maps, even those drawn up by Japan and China, do place Dokdo under Korean sovereignty. |
Not so. Such maps mistakenly identify Jukdo or Usan-do ( a small island 2 km from Ulleung-do) as the modern-day "Dokdo".
Korean claims to the rocks are unconvincing, as are Japanese claims. The rocks have been mostly ignored or considered inconsequential by both countries through most of history.
Korea is mounting a national campaign to claim the rocks out of a sense of emotional resentment due to former Japanese colonisation. They are setting up exhibits and scale models of the islet in every airport and subway station, such is the extent of the neurosis. But fact is they have a weak case.
For a further and thorough historical investigation, I highly recommend looking here:
http://dokdo-or-takeshima.blogspot.com/ |
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Mariner
Joined: 24 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Who cares who found it first or mapped it first or licked it first.
Lets have Korea and Japan hug it out... or fight it out.
That is how territorial disputes are resolved.
Its value? Well Alaska at 1.9 cents an acre was derided as useless and Seward's Folly. Then they found some black oozy stuff. |
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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: |
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japan is known for having territorial issues with surrounding nations, including russia.
those silly islanders just refuse to give up. |
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kyopoopa
Joined: 28 Feb 2010
Location: west coast
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:35 am Post subject: Re: Dokdo Island Belongs to Korea! |
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On the 60 in Rowland Heights? |
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