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Dangerous Islands: Japan, Korea, and the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Alexis Dudden
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The United States government has landed itself in the middle of a major territorial dispute between Japan and Korea.

On July 25, with astonishing lack of knowledge, an obscure branch of the American government called the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) reversed fifty years of officially orchestrated avoidance concerning an ongoing battle between Japan and Korea. It decided that the United States would henceforth consider some tiny islands in the sea between them of “undesignated sovereignty.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 8 , August 2008 , e6
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