North Korea raps Japan's Tokyo Olympic map showing disputed islands

North Korea on Saturday criticized a map on the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee's website that shows a group of islands controlled by South Korea as part of Japan.Japan regards the islets in the Sea of Japan as part of its Shimane Prefecture, but the South has had effective control of them since the 1950s, claiming them as its own. The islands are called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, a spokesman for North Korea's Olympic Committee said the marking on the map was aimed at realizing Japan's "te…READ FULL ARTICLE