From the beginning of this year, Japan posted on Internet a picture book drawn by a former teacher of a primary school in Shimane Prefecture, which tells schoolchildren the Tok Islets are "inalienable territory" of Japan. It also works hard to distribute to world's biggest cities a video asserting Japan's "dominium" over Tok Islets in 11 languages.

Japanese Foreign Minister Kishida in a speech at the Diet openly insisted upon Japan's "claim" to Tok Islets.

The Japanese government dispatched a vice minister to an event held in Shimane Prefecture some days ago to mark the "Takeshima (Tok Islets) day".

In this regard, KCNA met Dr. and Associate Prof. Hwang Myong Chol, a section chief of the History Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences of the DPRK.

He said:

According to history books, Tok Islets were belonged to Usan Kingdom from 6th century ago and later, Usan Kingdom reverted to Silla Kingdom (early in the 6th century-935).

In particular, the Feudal Joson Dynasty (1392-1910) promulgated the Ordinance No. 41 in October 1900 with an aim to reconfirm its dominium over the islets.

It was none other than Korea, which found the islets for the first time, incorporated them into its territory and proclaimed its dominium at home and abroad in keeping with modern international laws.

Historical data proving that Tok Islets are part of inviolable territory of Korea have been discovered one after another. Even old documents of Japan, found at a history archive in Shimane Prefecture a few years ago, say that in the 19th century some Japanese fishermen were executed for landing on Tok Islets in disregard of "Ordinance Banning Sailing to the Islets".

Ordinances of Japan instituted in 1950s stipulated that Tok Islets are not belonged to Japan.

The international community acknowledges that the islets are part of inviolable territory of Korea.

Lurking behind Japan's persistent claim to the islets is an ulterior intention to reduce the islets into those in dispute by internationalizing and politicizing the issue of the islets and thus make a comeback to Korea under this pretext and, furthermore, realize its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" with the Korean Peninsula as a springboard.

Tok Islets are part of the sacred territory of Korea.