日向韩提议将岛屿之争提交国际法院

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BBC Chinese, Aug 21, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... skorea_island.shtml("韩方已表示不会接受提议")

(2) History wars in North-East Asia | Ripping Yarns; A revived spat between Japan and South Korea unsettles the United States. Economist, Aug 18, 2012.
http://www.economist.com/node/21560617

Quote:

"Its [Japan's] foreign minister, Koichiro Gemba, said Mr Lee’s provocation gave Japan little choice but to take the case to the International Court of Justice. The threat is hollow. The court will not adjudicate unless two sides agree that a dispute exists. South Korea does not, just as Japan says its claim over some other rocks, the Senkakus, claimed by China (which calls them the Diaoyu Islands) is not in dispute.

"The 1951 San Francisco peace treaty with Japan deliberately overlooked the matter of Dokdo’s sovereignty, for fear the islands might fall into the hands of the Communist north in the Korean war.  

Note:
(a) That is president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak in quotation 1.
(b) The article says, "One DPJ prime minister, Naoto Kan, offered a fulsome apology on the centenary of the Korean annexation."

fulsome (adj; Middle English fulsom copious, cloying, from full + -som -some):
"characterized by abundance : COPIOUS"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fulsome
(c) For Dokdo, see Liancourt Rocks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liancourt_Rocks
(Dokdo 獨島 in Korean, and Takeshima 竹島 in Japanese; The Franco-English name of the islets derives from Le Liancourt, the name of a French whaling ship which came close to being wrecked on the rocks in 1849; Since the South Korean president, Syngman RHEE 李承晩 [1875-1965; presidency 1948-1960], deployed the South Korean Coast Guard to the islets in January 1952, South Korea has occupied the area)
(d) The above Wiki page mentions without explanation "MacArthur line" in section 6 Role in Japanese–Korean relations.
(i) Rusk documents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusk_Documents
(the official diplomatic correspondence sent by Dean Rusk, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to Yang You Chan (양유찬, 梁裕燦), the South Korean ambassador to the U.S at [sic] the Aug 10, 1951: The MacArthur line stands until the conclusion of the Treaty of San Francisco)
(ii) SCAPIN677. Jan 29, 1946.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/SCAPIN677
(iii) SCAPIN. Wikipedia (Japanese), undated
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAPIN
(Supreme Command for Allied Powers Instruction Note、スキャッピン）とは、連合国軍最高司令官（SCAP）から日本政府宛てに出された訓令。公式には連合軍最高司令部訓令; section 1.1 SCAPIN-677)

translation: Supreme Command for Allied Powers Instruction Note (SCAPIN for short) is instruction directed Japanese government, from Supreme Command for Allied Powers (SCAP). The official name in Japanese was/is 連合軍最高司令部訓令.
(iv) Official position paper of Japan on Liancourt Rocks:

4 Incorporation of Takeshima into Shimane Prefecture. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, undated
www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/incorporation.html

, whose essence is as follows.
(A) The rocks had been unclaimed;
(B) Japan declared sovereignty over the islands in January 1905 and renamed them Takeshima--from "Lyanko" in Japanese (the latter being corruption of Liancourt);
(C) the position paper refutes Koreas' assertion that Imperial Ordinance No 41 of 1900 of Korean Empire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Empire
(大韓帝國; 1897-1910)
incorporated what Japanese have called Takeshima since 1905, because the "Takeshima" mentioned in No 41 probably is not the same.