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• Please Not Dokdo Again

  Published: July 16, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: East Asia, Law, Politics, Dokdo, Japan, Korea, Liancourt Rocks, Library Of Congress, Netizens, Rok, Takeshima

  Dokdo/Takeshima (or, again, Liancourt Rocks). My first reaction was disbelief, when the ROK ambassador was recalled, because I associate such a step as the penultimate decision before declaring war. The barren rocks are not worth this diplomatic tension. But

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• Crazy about the Rocks

  Published: July 20, 2008, 6:16 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Law, Politics, Dokdo, Japan, Korea, Liancourt Rocks, Rok, Takeshima

  I wanted to avoid another post on the Liancourt Rocks issue, but the pheasant killers got my attention, in a bad way. I'm disgusted by this febrile macho nationalism, or indeed any patently illogical defenses cloaked by pseudo-argument. Or, bad mothers who put nationalism before their kids. It's a controversy, not only between two states, [...]

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• How Koreans Bow Out of Appointments

  Published: July 21, 2008, 8:18 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Dokdo, Fta, Japan, Korea, Liancourt Rocks, Rok, Takeshima

  the «Rocks» excuse! Talks between Japan and South Korea on resuming negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement have been postponed indefinitely after Seoul said it was unhappy over a reference to the Takeshima islets in school handbooks, the Yonhap News Agency reported Saturday. An official at the South Korean Foreign Affairs

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• Might Extorts Right and Cash

  Published: July 22, 2008, 7:51 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Energy, Igos, Military, Politics, Busan, Dokdo, Japan, Korea, Liancourt Rocks, Rok, Takeshima, Treaty Of San Francisco

  Ampontan weighs in on the Liancourt Rocks issue with an excellent post offering a solution to the Japan-ROK impasse between the Busan or Takeshima gambits. As a proud expat denizen of Busan, I would opt for the Busan approach to ending the Liancourt Rocks impasse, if not for the more proximate, and fundamental,issues of the [...]

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• Infighting Until Irrelevant

  Published: July 22, 2008, 7:33 am

  Tags: East Asia, Politics, Wmd, Dokdo, Japan, Lee Myung Bak, Liancourt Rocks, Mt Geumgang, Nukes, Six Party Talks, Takeshima

  shooting «event», Liancourt Rocks, and six-party talks. Which is to say, President Lee Myung-bak can't put his departmental ducks in a row. One problem is that government agencies are taking uncoordinated steps. Kwon's remarks on linking Dokdo with

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• When Seoul Acts like Bush

  Published: July 25, 2008, 1:54 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Energy, Globalization, Igos, Law, Politics, Dokdo, Gas Hydrates, Korea, Liancourt Rocks, Rok, Takeshima, Un Convention On The Law Of The Sea

  Michael Breen redeems himself by pointing out a factoid I had forgotten from the last episode of Liancourt Rocks histrionics: Liancourt is not an island; it's a pile of rocks. And, in international legal terms, that's not nothing. In fact, what some cabal of South Korean bureaucrats are doing is crazy kind of smart, in [...]

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• The Liancourt Rocks Betrayal

  Published: July 28, 2008, 10:01 pm

  Tags: East Asia, Politics, Usa, Dokdo, Japan, Korea, Liancourt Rocks, Ngia, Rok, State Department, Takeshima, Usgs

  on the Liancourt Rocks. QUESTION: My question is about Liancourt Rocks. Last week, the Board on Geographic Names changed the name of the country that Liancourt Rocks belonged to - from

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• Bush Survives Seoul

  Published: August 6, 2008, 8:18 am

  Tags: East Asia, Politics, Usa, Dokdo, George W Bush, Korea, Lee Myung Bak, Liancourt Rocks, Rok, Seoul, Takeshima

  US President George W. Bush's visit to Seoul these past two days is either a draw for conservative and progressive factions, or a nasty wake-up call for the future of ROK-US relations. Both the Christian Science Monitor and the Online Newshour highlight the breadth of democratic opinion displayed in Seoul. On the other hand, it's not [...]

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