Liancourt Rocks dispute

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The Liancourt Rocks dispute, also called the Dokdo dispute or the Takeshima dispute, is a territorial dispute between South Korea, Japan, and North Korea regarding sovereignty over the Liancourt Rocks, a group of small islets in the Sea of Japan. The rocks are also known in Korea as Dokdo (Korean: 독도; Hanja: 獨島) and in Japan as Takeshima (Japanese: 竹島). North Korea also formerly claimed sovereignty of the islands, but had never pursued its claim to the same extent as the others; it has, since 2024, removed its claims on the islands, as well as the rest of South Korea, following the country's abandoning of all goals of reunification and adoption of the "Two hostile states theory" policy. The Liancourt Rocks have been administered by South Korea since 1952 by the Korea Coast Guard. This was after the United States said in the Rusk documents that the Japanese claim to the Liancourt Rocks would not be renounced in Japan's post-World-War-II peace treaty. In 1954, Japan proposed a referral to...

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