China News Service, May 30. According to Kyodo News, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on the 29th local time that in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the waters north of Takeshima (a disputed island between Japan and South Korea, known as Dokdo by South Korea), A South Korean survey ship was found sticking something like a cable into the sea.
The Japanese side immediately verified the matter with the South Korean side, and the South Korean side acknowledged that it had carried out a marine survey.
The Japanese government has called for an immediate stop and lodged a strong protest.
According to reports, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the South Korean side did not apply to the Japanese side in advance for the marine survey.
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also revealed that since May 2017, the Japanese side has once again protested to the South Korean side regarding the marine survey near Takeshima.
According to the Japan Coast Guard, a patrol ship carrying out an alert and surveillance mission found a survey ship sailing in the EEZ on the evening of the 28th.
After analyzing the cables that the survey ship extended into the sea, the patrol boat believed that the survey ship was most likely conducting marine surveys.
At about 6:40 p.m. local time on the 29th, in the waters about 74 kilometers north of Takeshima, the Japanese patrol ship asked the survey ship to stop the investigation by radio, but received no reply from the other party.
It is said that the South Korean survey ship retracted the cable at around 7:40 p.m. and left the EEZ around 10 p.m.
The report also said that the ocean survey was carried out by the ocean survey ship "Hae Yang 2000" belonging to the National Oceanographic Survey of South Korea.