Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- It is evidenced by maps drawn by Japan in the past that Tok Islets belong to Korea's territory.

Historically, Japan officially acknowledged Korea's dominium over Ullung Island and Tok Islets.

A map is included in the book "Review of Three States", published by a map maker, Shihei Hayashi ((1738-1793), in around 1785.

The map marks Korea in yellow color and Japan in green.

It yellow-colors Ullung Island and Tok Islets on the East Sea of Korea, making it clear that they belong to Korea's territory.

The same holds true for maps made by the Japanese military.

The Ministry of Navy printed a "Korean east sea map" in 1876 on the basis of British and Russian vessels' survey results. The map puts Ullung Island and Tok Islets within the Korean territorial water.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Navy re-printed the map several times, marking Tok Islets as Korea's territory until 1905.

The Ministry of Army also included Ullung Island and Tok Islets in the Korean territory in its map printed in 1875 and the General Staff Office of the Ground Force did the same in its map drawn in 1936.

Tok Islets were not marked as Japan's territory in the history map of a textbook for examination by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 1929 and 1933 and in another map printed in Japan in 1934.

Although the Japanese imperialists put most of northeast Asia under their control at that time, they dared not to mark Tok Islets as Japanese territory.

Korea's dominium over Tok Islets is undisputable in every aspect.