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Sovereign Rivalry Between Korea And Japan Fermented By A Distorting Fisheries Agreement, Young K. Kim

Young K Kim

The 1998 Fishery Agreement between Korea and Japan has been reviewed in view of the law of treaty, in this article. In concluding the 1998 Fishery Agreement, the contracting parties failed to reach even the preliminary point of mutual consent and evaded the differences of stance in delineating the provisionally arranged zone in the East China Sea, by concealing them with intended ambiguous terms, simply for the purpose of maintaining superficial contractual relations. In delineating another provisionally arranged zone in East Sea/the Sea of Japan, a legal confusion in the part of Korea and Japanese side’s persistent intention to earn …