South Korea protests Japanese event over disputed islands

2026-02-22 - 17:03

The tiny islets, known as Takeshima in ‌Japan ⁠and Dokdo in South Korea, which are controlled by ⁠them, have long been a source of tension between the two neighbours, whose relations remain strained by disputes rooted ​in Japan’s colonial rule ‌of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945