Here we go again with the VANKers and there never ending quest to find any map in the world that doesn’t annotate Dokdo:

The U.S. Library of Congress has reportedly failed to include Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo on its online map of the country.

According to the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, the U.S. entity has also left Ulleung Island out of its drawing of Korea’s territory and labeled the “East Sea” as the “Sea of Japan.”

The library placed Dokdo and Ulleung without labeling them on its map of Japan. It also marked Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju as Japanese territory.

VANK is a non-governmental group that seeks to rectify false information about Korea in the international arena.  [Chosun Ilbo]

Well I went over to the US Library of Congress webpage and found the most current map they have for Korea and it has Ulleong-do listed but not Dokdo:

Click here for a larger image, but this map also includes Cheju as Korean territory.  They have a gallery of other maps of the Korean peninsula, North Korea, and historic maps as well. On none of those maps did I find Ulleong-do missing or Cheju listed as Japanese territory.  Some of the other maps did not have Dokdo while other had it listed as the Liancourt Rocks with no designation of ownership.  I’m not sure what VANK is talking about and you would think before a major Korean media outlet would run such a story they would bother to take a look at the map VANK is talking about.

Something I did find of interest though was that a 1815 map the library has of “Corea and Japan” has Ulleong-do listed as Argonaut Island and Dokdo is called “Dagelet Island”.

It is unclear from the map exactly who has ownership of the islands, but from the color scheme it may be inferred they are Korean.  Also the East Sea is called the Sea of Japan which is just further evidence of how long this body of water has been called that by western nations.  I wonder how long before VANK complains about this map?