일본의 ‘죽도’ 고유영토론 날조에 관한 분석 - 일본의회의사록을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study sheds light on the fabrication of Japan's Jukdo native English debate. First, Dokdo is appropriate to be called Korea's own territory if you look at the ancient documents of both Korea and Japan. Looking at this, Dokdo is not Japan's own territory. Japan began claiming Dokdo as its own territory around 1956. In the 1956 Japan claimed that the northern territories were its own territory in the 1956 Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration, and then applied them to Dokdo Island. During the 1962 Korea-Japan talks, the Japanese government insisted that Dokdo be given its own territory in earnest. This is because South Korea opposed the Japanese government's claim to resolve the sovereignty of Dokdo in the Korea-Japan agreement. Second, the Japanese government proposed to the Korean government to entrust the International Court of Justice to solve the Dokdo issue because Dokdo is Japan's own territory. The Korean government rejected Japan's request. On the contrary, the Korean government was in a tough position that it could never give up its sovereignty to Japan because Dokdo is Korea's own territory. Therefore, the Japanese government insisted that the two countries should solve the problem by sharing the sovereignty of Dokdo. This, of course, was unacceptable to the Korean government. However, in particular, Japanese opposition party members strongly criticized the Japanese government's claim to share. Finally, the theory of Dokdo sharing disappeared, and the International Court of Justice did not resolve the Dokdo issue. In the end, the two countries stated in the Korea-Japan agreement that they would solve the pending issues peacefully without specifying the name of Dokdo in the memorandum of exchange between them. Instead, the Dokdo issue was resolved by acknowledging the actual situation in which Korea effectively controls Dokdo. In addition, instead of abolishing the peace line in the Korea-Japan Fisheries Agreement signed at the same time as the Korea-Japan Agreement, Japan recognized Korea's entire waters of 12 nautical miles around Dokdo. Third, immediately after the 1965 Korea-Japan Agreement, the Japanese government criticized the 12-nautical zone measures recognized by Korea. It was argued that the Korea-Japan Fisheries Agreement should be revised to secure 12 nautical miles of territorial waters because Dokdo is Japan's own territory.