The Tsushima Island Was the Territory of Korea

In the midst of dipllomatic squabbles over territorial rights of the Dokdo islets, international pundits are coming forward to come up with tips. Wise pieces of advice are coming from Japanese academia, which is very impressive and gives Koreans ammunition for diplomatic disputes to be tackled with the militaristic Japanese leadership. Lee Hyun Bok, Professor emeritus of Seoul National University, revealed an international e-mail and publicly appreciated the efforts. Lee introduced the author and sender of the e-mail as Professor Kiyoshi Shimizu of Kumamoto University of Japan, who cited very authoritative historical archives of foreign authorship (History of Korea by Hulbert, 1905) in which the Tsushima Island of Japan is described that it had been under the administrative domination of the Silla Kingdom, the ancient Korea. Prof. Shimizu of the Japanese university has expressed his intention for the resolution of the pending issues by peaceful means based on reasonable historical grounds and hoped that the relevant materials would be used for the benefit of the Korean government. Hulbert, The author of [History of Korea] must have quoted pertinent parts from [三國史記 :The Journals of Three Kingdoms], in which Prof. emeritus Lee Hyon Bok introduced one or two intriguing descriptions pertinent to the property rights of the Tsushima Isaland: It is important to notice that the island of Tsushima, whether actually conquered by Silla or not, became a dependency of that kingdom. On account of the sterility of the soil the people of the island were annually aided by the (Silla) government. You can see the article on: http://www.chosun.com/national/news/200503/200503 [...]