So, today Japan is making a move in their slow-mo salami tactic claim to the islets of Dokdo-Takeshima.
But I got an uncomfortable back-to-the-future circa 1940 feeling while reading the predictions in this 2011 analysis.
This chess game has fascinating 12th century precedents, a war of information, national romanticism, and that disappointing ever present oil and gas dimension.
#southkorea #japan #history #dokdo #takeshima
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289878699_A_New_Approach_to_a_Territorial_Dispute_Involving_a_Former_Colonizer-Colony_Pair_The_Case_of_the_DokdoTakeshima_Dispute_between_Korea_and_Japan#pf28