On February 18, lawmakers of Japan held the "Third Tokyo 'Takeshima Day' meeting" at the Diet and let loose a sophism that some part of Japan's territory is illegally occupied by other country.

And at an event to mark "Takeshima Day" held on Feb. 22, they carried out a street propaganda calling for "dominium over Tok Island".

Japan's persistent assertion of "dominium over Tok Island" is a vivid manifestation of its deep-rooted ambition for reinvasion and scheme to grab other's territory.

Tok Island is a territory belonging to Korea from the historical and legal point of view as acknowledged by the world public. Even Japanese themselves admitted this fact through documents.

Late in the 17th century, Edo shogunate and the governor of Tsushima Island confirmed that Ulrung and Tok islands in the East Sea of Korea are in Korean possession and issued orders to prohibit the voyage to the islands. After "the 1868 Meiji Restoration", officials of the Japanese foreign ministry visited Korea and wrote in a report that Juk (Ulrung) and Song (Tok) islands belong to Korea.

Shihei Hayashi, a famous cartographer of Japan, included Ulrung and Tok islands in his map of Korea, Japan and Northeast China drawn in 1785 and noted that they belong to Korea. And a map drawn by the ordnance survey bureau under the General Staff Office of the Ground Force of the Japanese Army in 1936 showed that those islands belong to Korea.

The maps opened to the public in 2018, too, prove that Tok and Ulrung islands belong to Korea. Those maps were drawn by a historian at the Japanese royal family in 1927 and 1931.

As seen above, Japan's claim to Tok Island is an unreasonable insistence and it is an open declaration of Japan's scheme to realize the old dream of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

Tok Island is an inviolable territory of the Korean nation no matter how much water may flow under bridge.