Emphasizing "Dokdo (Takeshima) is our territory" by the Korean presidential office ... Absence from Japan's Japan-US-Korea joint meeting is unusual

The Korean Presidential Office (Blue House) said on the 18th, "We will reiterate that Dokdo (Korean name for Takeshima) is our territory that is clear in terms of historical, geographical and international law."

An official of the presidential office said to reporters on this day that the joint press conference scheduled after the Japan-US-Korea Foreign Ministers' Meeting was canceled due to Japan's opposition to the visit of the South Korean police to Takeshima. Showing a good position.

"It would be extremely unusual if it was true that Japan was absent for this reason" he said, citing the reasons Japan had told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Choi Jong-gun, the first secretary of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is visiting the United States, said on the 17th (local time) that the Japanese side could not attend the meeting due to the issue of the Korean police chief's visit to Dokdo.

Choi, US Assistant Secretary of State Wendy Ruth Sherman, and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Mori were scheduled to hold a joint meeting this morning after holding a Japan-US-Korea Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Washington. However, only US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman appeared at the press conference.