First discovery of Chinese documents marking Dokdo as Korean territory
Dec 1, 2013
A researcher here said Sunday that she found multiple documents published by China in the 1900s that describe South Korea’s ownership of the easternmost islets of Dokdo, which are also claimed by Japan.Yoo Mi-rim, a researcher at the Korea Dokdo and Marine Territory Research Center under the state-run Korea Maritime Institute, published a book with multiple diplomatic documents she found in the archives of the Chinese foreign ministry.The documents were estimated to be written between Korea’s li