S. Korea"s campaign to adopt East Sea name ends in failure
2012-04-26 21:30
>The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), an intergovernmental organization representing maritime bureaucrats around the world, decided Thursday not to revise a global chart to include the "East Sea" name for the waters separating the Korean Peninsula and Japan, officials said Thursday.
IHOはEast Sea併記をするというグローバルチャート改正を否決した。
>The decision represented a failure of diplomacy by South Korea for the concurrent use of East Sea and the current "Sea of Japan" appellation to refer to the waters.
この決定はEast Sea併記を求めた韓国外交の失敗を意味する。
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