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The Syngman Rhee line (n President Syngman Rhee in his "'''Peace Line'''"(평화선) declaration of January 18 , 1952 , marking Liancourt Rocks as Korean territory. The president has stated that the purpose of the line was to protect marine resources around the Sea of Japan, therefore it banned any fishing boat except for Korean from fishing around the area. The fishing boats, which were mostly Japanese, that violated the boundary line were seized by South Korea. Japanese records claim that such ships were often gunned by South Korea. Japanese Government protested strongly, but the abolition of the line had to wait even for the approval of the , 2006 .. Japanese Government released 472 Korean people in Japan who had been imprisoned as illegal immigrants in exchange for the restoration of Japanese detainees according to the demand of the South Korea Government, and Japanese Government granted the special permission of residence to the prisoners. SOLVING THE PROBLEM Solving the problem required many years. The following are causes that were an obstacle to its settlement: # There was no formal diplomatic relation between Japan and South Korea. # The normalization talks between Japan and South Korea became complicated due to the compensation claim, and was not advanced at all. # The United States took the middle ground and did not intervene it, because of the opinion that the problem was bilateral issue. HISTORY
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