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Persuade imperial Japan to abandon its nonsensical territorial claim for the Korean Dok-do island in the East Sea

Created by K.L. on November 12, 2012

When the United States composed the draft of the 「San Francisco Peace Treaty」for the Allies, it included substantive enactment that Dokdo was a Korean territory
from the 1st draft to 5th draft. When noticing it, Japan lobbied through American counselor to provide Dokdo as a radar base and meteorological observatory for the US Air Forces. As a result, the US marked that Dokdo was not Korean territory but Japanese territory in 6th draft. However, other allies such as the Great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia did not agree to the 6th draft of the US. So Dokdo was not mentioned in the 7th-9th draft. And Dokdo was left out of it. So, Japan has maintained that the Allies recognized Dokdo as a Japanese territory. This claim by Japan is factually inaccurate. Dokdo clearly belongs to Korea.

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