South Korea has summoned the Japanese ambassador to complain about Tokyo’s latest territorial claim to a disputed island.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung—hwan met on Tuesday with the Japanese envoy to “strongly protest” Tokyo’s approval of elementary school textbooks that claim the Dokdo islands as Japanese.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lim Jeong—taek says the textbooks issue could “negatively affect” the countries’ relations.
Dokdo - called Takeshima in Japanese - has long been a source of friction between South Korea and its former colonial occupier. The island is surrounded by rich fishing grounds in the East Sea and is believed to lie near natural gas deposits.
