Japan's claim to be internationally certified is broken

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It is known that the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), which determines the standard for international maritime names will assign a unique identification number to its official booklet instead of the Sea of ​​Japan, which has been used as the name of the Sea of ​​Japan. It is expected that Japan's logic, which has argued will lose its legitimacy. The government has held diplomatic warfare in the IHO booklet saying that not only the Sea of ​​Japan but also the East Sea should be included. Although it did not achieve its original purpose of a joint weapon between the East Sea and the Sea of ​​Japan, it is evaluated that it provided an important opportunity to refute Japan's logic that the Sea of ​​Japan should be used alone in various maps such as charts based on the IHO booklet.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc., the IHO recently announced a plan to mark the East Sea as a universal numerical identifier in the revised edition of the international standard chart book, Boundary between Oceans and Seas (S-23), which is a guideline for the production of various charts, suggested on the Secretary General of the IHO will brief the results of the consultation at the second general meeting to be held in November. The government expects the agenda to be adopted as the IHO member states show high support.

The IHO published the S-23 with the Sea of ​​Japan alone in 1929 during the Japanese occupation. This type of weaponry continued without modification in the second edition (1937) and the third edition (1953). Recognizing the problem belatedly, the government began a diplomatic war in the international community in 1997 that the East Sea should be jointly armed with the S-23. In 2002, disagreements between the IHO member states for marking the East Sea were not resolved, so the East Sea was left blank in the fourth edition of that year. As the conflict between Korea and Japan was hardly closed, it was reported that last year, five countries, including the South and North, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, held two informal consultations and found a compromise to write identification numbers that are not East and Japan.

The IHO proposed the beginning of the digital chart era as a justification for introducing an identification number but in reality it decided to subtract all the sea names from the revised edition to end the long dispute between Korea and Japan over the East Sea notation.

Diplomatic authorities believe that S-23 is the most essential basis for supporting Japan's claim that the Sea of ​​Japan is the only internationally established name. Accordingly, it is expected that the publication of the revised edition of S-23 with an identification number will be an effective means of overturning Japan's claims. Contrary to Japan's argument, it is possible to persuade the international community with the logic that the Sea of ​​Japan single weapon is an outdated custom. Accordingly, it is expected that Korea's East Sea Weapons diplomatic war, which has continued for 23 years will accelerate.

However, it is also evaluated that the failure to achieve the original goal of East Sea Weaponry is a proof that the international community still has not surpassed Japanese influence. Even if a new chart book with an identification number is introduced, Japan's position that the existing S-23 marked with the Sea of ​​Japan will not be immediately discarded is also reflected. One source said, from the IHO point of view, Japan's breath cannot be ignored. The IHO, who can't listen to only one side of Korea and Japan, found a compromise after thought.