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The top diplomats of South Korea and Japan agreed to strengthen cooperation on North Korean issues, while expressing lingering differences in historical matters, including compensation for forced labor victims during Japan’s colonial rule of the peninsula and South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and his Japanese counterpart, Yoko Kamikawa, met for the first t...

An annual ceremony was held in western Japan to press the country's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, a long-standing sticking point in bilateral ties that have recently been improving.

Authorities in Shimane Prefecture designated Feb. 22 as Takeshima Day in 2005, a century after the Cabinet placed them under the prefectures jurisdiction.

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- The defense ministry said Tuesday it has expanded the scope of ...

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Critics have accused the South Korean government of playing into Japan’s narrative on Dokdo, which Tokyo claims as the Takeshima islands, amid pressure from Washington for the two to set aside their historical quarrels.

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Korea strongly protests Japans repeated claims to its easternmost islets of Dokdo, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, after Japans top diplomat renewed the claim in a speech before the parliament.

The South Korean government on Tuesday urged Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa to "immediately retract" her claim of territorial sovereignty over Dokdo, which are South Korea's easternmost sovereign islets, in her parliamentary speech. "The government strongly protests against the repeated unjust territorial claims by the Japanese government regarding Dokdo, which is undeniably our distinct ...

Bitter cold weather continued to grip the nation Wednesday, keeping temperatures well below zero in most regions, with Seouls morning low at minus 11.2 C, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. The cities of Incheon and Suwon, both located in the area surrounding Seoul, also recorded morning lows of minus 10.4 C and minus 11.3 C, respectively, while regions in the northern part of Gyeonggi Province an...