獨島의 政治地理學的 考察 : 그의 所屬과 機能에 대하여 = A Political Geographical Study of Dok-Do Islands

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The aims of this article are to find out the political geographical validities of Dok-Do ialands' belonging to Korea and to discuss the functions, practical and potential, of the islands.
The belonging of the islands to Korea is reasonable because its distance to Ullung-Do island, the nearest inhabited one of Korea, is shorter than that to Oki island, the nearest inhabited one of Japan. Judgment of the belonging of an island from the distance not to mainlands but to the nearest inhabited islands of the two states concerned is right in the viewpoint of human geography. And more, the relationships or interactions between two given points faced most nearly each other may be more deeply linked than the others. This theory is generally accepted. In the case of Dok-Do islands, the relationships or interactions between Ullung-Do island and Dok-Do islands have been frequent through ages, and even present days this is true as well.
The belonging to Korea is also reasonable because the sea in the vicinity of Dok-Do islands and the islands itself are the historic waters and the historic islands respectively of Koreans. The historic waters and the historic islands should belong to the state which have taken the possession of history in his people's activities on that waters and islands. This is a commonsense in political geography.
Dok-Do islands itself has several functions, practical and potential, for Korea and his vicinal states. The islands can be a wonderful base on the East Sea (Sea of Japan) for fishery, and may be a point d'appui for widening political power of a state, Korea or Japan. The islands also has a big symbolic meaning for Korea, and has a lot of values for being used as a strategic forward base or a strategic air base. These potentialities can be realized by the strong national power (technology and wealth) of the state concerned. In the aspects of transportation and trade, the islands is possible to conform his function of nodal point in East Sea. A habour in Dok-Do islands can easily be connected those of Japan and U. S. S. R. And finally the islands can be determined as a territorial (or earth) base in demarcation of jurisdictional limits on East Sea. Therefore, the question of populating of inhabitants is worth being gradually considered by the Korean government.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 問題의 提起
• Ⅱ. 本論
• A. 獨島의 地理
• B. 獨島의 韓國領有 타당성 : 政治地理學的 根據
• C. 獨島의 政治地理的 機能
• Ⅲ. 結論 및 提言
• 參考文獻