S. Korea ruling party raps Japan over island dispute
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August 13, 2012, Monday
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SOUTH Korea hit back at Japan yesterday in a bitter row over disputed islands, saying any move by Tokyo to take the issue to an international court would be "imprudent."
The territorial row over the Seoul-controlled islands has simmered for decades but erupted again on Friday when President Lee Myung-Bak visited the volcanic outcrops in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
An angry Japan recalled its ambassador from Seoul and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said the trip - the first by a South Korean president - was "extremely deplorable."
Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said on Saturday that Tokyo could ask the International Court of Justice to settle the row over the islands, known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.
The South's ruling New Frontier Party said any such move would be an act of "imprudence" and called on Japan to fully repent its harsh colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945 - a source of resentment for elderly Koreans.
South Korea rejected repeated proposals by Japan in the 1950s and 60s to let the court rule on the issue.
The territorial row over the Seoul-controlled islands has simmered for decades but erupted again on Friday when President Lee Myung-Bak visited the volcanic outcrops in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
An angry Japan recalled its ambassador from Seoul and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said the trip - the first by a South Korean president - was "extremely deplorable."
Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said on Saturday that Tokyo could ask the International Court of Justice to settle the row over the islands, known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.
The South's ruling New Frontier Party said any such move would be an act of "imprudence" and called on Japan to fully repent its harsh colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945 - a source of resentment for elderly Koreans.
South Korea rejected repeated proposals by Japan in the 1950s and 60s to let the court rule on the issue.
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