S. Korea summons Japanese diplomat to protest over disputed islets

S. Korea summons Japanese diplomat to protest over disputed islets

Hideo Suzuki, a minister of the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, leaves the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2017, after being summoned by Chung Byung Won, director general of the ministry's Northeast Asia Affairs Bureau. Chung lodged a complaint over Tokyo's dispatch of a government representative to an annual "Takeshima Day" ceremony in Shimane Prefecture pressing Japan's claim to Dokdo, a pair of South Korean-controlled islets known as Takeshima in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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