With this week dominated by Dokdo nonsense I guess this is a great time to direct everyone to an old posting I did which highlighted my own trip to the disputed Dokdo Islets which was entertaining to say the least. Here is an excerpt from my earlier posting:
Even if you thought these rocks seemed pretty worthless you wouldn’t know it by the Koreans’ reactions. People broke out in the Korean national athemn and waved their Taegukis as we neared the islands. People were even crying at the sight of the islands. The ajummas stormed all over the deck of the boat and shifted their position to face the island every time the boat moved. It was like standing in a stampede of cattle as the ajummas raced across the deck to get a better view of the islets:
The people on the boat cheered the many fishing boats as we floated by. They looked back with indifference. In the distance you could even see the Korean naval destroyer that patrols Dokdo protecting it from any Japanese horde that may try to seize the islands such as research vessels filled with legions of hostile scientists.
Make sure to check out the full posting and pictures by clicking here.
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5:11 pm on July 19th, 2008 1
I will go to Takeshima and plant rising sun flag.
3:27 am on July 20th, 2008 2
I have a small page dealing with the Tokdo background, history and events from 2005 to present that might be helpful in understanding some of the issues. It’s at:
Tokdo
Sorry but the Tokdo events prior to 2005 are still stuck in the Kunsan pages because I didn’t feel like digging all that archived history.
The history part draws heavily from Dokdo-or-Takeshima and Gerry Bevers work. It is confusing because I’ve tried to look at both sides of the issue — and in this case I haven’t been all that successful in sorting things out. The arguments get very deep.
11:47 pm on August 23rd, 2008 3
Kalani, much too heavily.