SEOUL, April 25 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Tuesday condemned Japan's repeated territorial claims to a pair of its rocky islets, known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, after the announcement of Japan's diplomatic paper.
The 2017 diplomatic blue paper, released earlier in the day, reiterated Japan's territorial claims to the set of islets lying halfway between South Korea and Japan.
Seoul's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that South Korea strongly denounces Japan's unfair territorial claims to the Dokdo islets, which are clearly the country's indigenous territory historically, geographically and under international laws.
The statement urged Japan to immediately drop the claims, saying Japan's reflection on history would be the starting point and the necessary conditions to establish South Korea-Japan relations.
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