Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard:

This clearly tells what a desperate and reckless phase the moves of the Japanese reactionaries to grab Tok Islet have reached.

Citing the facts to prove such moves now under way inside and outside Japan, the commentary goes on:

It is the calculation of the Japanese reactionaries that they can certainly attain their unreasonable political aim if they create an ample social atmosphere for seizing the islet in Japan and internationalize it gradually.

No matter what desperate efforts they may make to grab the islet, they will get them nowhere.

Japan is driven into a bottomless quagmire internationally as undeniable evidence proving that the islet is part of the inviolable territory of Korea is being ceaselessly discovered.

This being a hard reality, the Japanese reactionaries are insisting on their dominium over the islet. This is no more than a far-fetched brigandish claim which cannot convince anyone.

They claimed that the land of other country belonged to them in the past. Now they are visiting other countries to spread their claim to the islet in a bid to build up public opinion and solicit support for it. This is an unpardonable brigandish act.

They greeted the new century without making any apology for the unheard-of crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people in the past, much less making any reparation for them. They are now perpetrating unpardonable crimes to add to Japan's past crimes by frantically working to seize the islet.

The crafty intention of the Japanese reactionaries to make the issue of the islet an international dispute once again convinces the Koreans that neither word nor good faith can work on Japan.

Explicitly speaking, Tok Islet is not "Takeshima" of Japan.