Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This is a base act not suited to the highly-civilized era in the 21st century.

Tok Islets have been part of the inviolable territory of Korea from the olden times and have never been part of the Japanese territory.

This has been proved by many historic data and the Japanese reactionaries all know this.

But they, regarding it as important for realizing their ambition for overseas aggression to grab the islets, have worked hard to do so at any cost.

As disclosed, after the Japanese scholar and his party entered south Korea, the Japanese consulate called them several times and threatened them not to go to the islets, inquiring about every detail of their itinerary.

It is a base and poor mode of thinking that they think they can mislead history by gagging a few people and realize their shameless ambition for grabbing the islets.

Tok Islets were, are and will be part of the inviolable territory of Korea no matter how hard Japan may try to distort the truth of history and bury it into oblivion.

The Korean nation will never allow anyone to encroach upon even a blade of grass on the islets.

The Japanese reactionaries should frankly accept the truth of history, though belatedly.