A bitter territorial disagreement between Japan and South Korea has spilled onto an unlikely new frontier. Recent leaks of cameras have appeared on rumor blogs with a strange, watermarked message in Japanese — it suggests the website in question supports South Korea's claim to a group of small, remote islands between the Korean peninsula and Japan.
The islets, known as Dokdo in Korean, Takeshima in Japanese, and the Liancourt Rocks in English, have been administered by South Korea since 1952 and the post-war San Francisco Treaty, with a constant Korean police presence maintained. Two South Korean civilians also live on the islets. Historians on both sides have traced the dispute back several centuries, but while Japan claims that it...
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