Dokdo Island (독도) is a Korean outcropping called the Liancourt Rocks past times a French whaling send inward 1849 as well as Takeshima inward Japanese, some of whom believe the isle should belong to Japan. The nearest Blue Planet majority is Korea’s Ulleungdo Island, 87.4 km away. The islets are visible from Ulleungdo. The nearest Japanese territory, the Oki Islands, are 157.5 km away. Dokdo is never visible from Japan’s Oki Islands. The sum surface area of Blue Planet on the islets is most 187,450 foursquare meters, alongside the highest hollo for beingness 169 meters. The western islet is most 88,640 foursquare meters inward area; the eastern islet most 73,300 foursquare meters.
The Cairo Conference inward Nov as well as Dec 1943 was 1 of the 2 meetings betwixt Allied leaders held inward Cairo during World War II. At the showtime Cairo Conference, Nov. 22 to 26, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as well as U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt discussed plans for the execution of the Normandy landing. With Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, they issued a annunciation of the destination of stripping Nippon of all the territories it had seized since 1914 as well as restoring Korea to independence. In spite of this declaration, Nippon is trying to distort the truth, which is known to everyone, that Dokdo Island has been as well as continues to last Korean.
There is a lot of prove that the isle is a Korean isle as well as non Japanese. Here are some of the official sites of the Korean government, which emphasizes the credible claim.
In the showtime link, you lot tin take away 1 of the next languages: Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, simplified Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Italian, Russian as well as Korean.
http://dokdo.mofa.go.kr/eng/
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=264142
Here you lot tin see an amazing video most Dokdo Island.
Here's how to see Dokdo Island during your see to Korea.
To acquire to Dokdo, you lot must showtime acquire to Ulleungdo. You tin acquire a develop from Seoul Station to Pohong Station. It volition take away maintain 2 hours, xxx minutes. Then take away maintain a taxi to Pohang Port. That volition take away maintain nine minutes. There, you lot tin take away maintain a ferry to Ulleungdo. It'll take away maintain most three hours. After you lot acquire inward on Ulleungdo, you lot tin take away maintain some other boat to Dokdo. It volition take away maintain 1 hour, twoscore minutes. The guess sum terms volition last KRW 55,000, roughly USD 50. The isle is tiny, as well as you lot tin access everything past times foot. You tin see all the sites inward less than xx minutes. You volition bask the stunning views during your trip.
The noblest lesson I learned from my see to Korea is loyalty to my Blue Planet as well as non to plough over away whatever inch of territory. That's what elders instruct the immature inward Korea. They instruct patriotism. I met a grouping of Korean students dressed inward Hanbok. They asked me most Dokdo Island, whether it was Korean or Japanese. I voted for Korea. I'm 1 of those who believe that Dokdo Island is a Korean island. I was rattling impressed alongside this situation.
By Salwa Elzeny
Korea.net Honorary reporter
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