South Korea conducted military drills for defense of islets Japan disputes

South Korea conducted a regular military exercise last week for the defense of a disputed pair of islets it controls in the Sea of Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported Wednesday.The Defense Ministry has withheld information regarding the reported drills, apparently to avoid heightening tensions with Japan, which regards the islets as part of its territory and calls them Takeshima. South Korea calls the outcroppings Dokdo.Citing multiple sources, the Yonhap report said the exercise did not include any landing and was instead conducted in waters near the islets. It reportedly involved the navy,…READ FULL ARTICLE