Tokdoheit 451: Let’s have an essay contest!

There appears to be no end to Korea’s passion for insignificant, isolated scraps of land.

Some 85.5 percent of the 451 islets in the Apnok (or Yalu) and Duman (or Tumen) rivers on the border between North Korea and China properly belong to the North, an academic claims. Prof. Suh Kil-soo of Seokyeong University makes the claim in a study of the border along Mt. Baekdu and the two rivers, which will be released in a seminar of the Koguryo and Balhae History Association at the History Museum of Paichai School Foundation in Seoul on Dec. 8. [Chosun Ilbo]

After a dispassionate “econometric analysis,” Professor Suh concluded that the vast majority of the islets were (still holding your breath?) Korean land. U-ri ttang! U-ri ttang!

Please submit your “why all of the islets in the Amnok-Gang are Korean land” essay contest entries in the comments below.