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After four months, the Ministry of National Defense announced the results of an audit of military mental education textbooks that described Dokdo as a disputed territory.
As a result of the audit of the Ministry of National Defense, it emerged that during the first consultation in May last year, a professor as a member of the advisory committee emphasized that “Dokdo is not an area of territorial dispute and there is no Needless to say, it’s a contested area.”
The Ministry of National Defense explains that despite these opinions, a sufficient review was not conducted and they were included in the textbook without changes.
The Ministry of National Defense also said that no issues regarding the absence of the Dokdo notation on 11 maps of the Korean Peninsula in the textbook were raised or investigated.
The Ministry of National Defense explained that this problem was not discovered because the entire writing team was composed mainly of active-duty soldiers, the final version of the textbook had not been properly revised, and the opinions of related departments and external organizations were not enough. harvest.
At the same time, warnings or warnings were issued to four persons in charge at the time of publication.
However, they said they did not include controversial content in the audit, such as technology that praised former President Syngman Rhee and defined domestic threat forces as our enemies, saying the assessment may vary depending on your perspective.
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