(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Oul August 05 (QNA) - South Korea denounced Japan's repeated claim to Seoul's easternmost islets of Dokdo on Tuesday calling it an "unjustifiable" move that would not help improve already chilled bilateral relations. Seoul's criticism came as Japan's Cabinet approved Tokyo's defense white paper for 2014 earlier in the day in which Japan laid claim to the East Sea islets. Japan has asserted its claim to Dokdo in its defense report for the past 10 years according to Yonhap news agency. The Dokdo islets which lie closer to South Korea than Japan in waters between the two countries have been a thorny bilateral issue. South Korea keeps a small police detachment on the islets. South Korea has rejected Japan's claim to Dokdo as nonsense because the country regained its independence from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule and reclaimed sovereignty over its territories including Dokdo and many other islands around the Korean Peninsula.(QNA)
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