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VANK（Voluntary Agency Network of Korea）was founded by Park Gi Tae in 1999.VANK says it’s a cyber diplomacy organization of 120,000 Koreans. The claim is it is an NGO (Non-Government Organization), but the Korean government makes national budget for VANK.

VANK has developed and implemented an education program for cyber diplomats. This program teaches Koreans how to interact with foreigners and act as citizen diplomats. These program have been adopted by over 500 student clubs in elementary, middle and high schools nationwide. Some universities grant academic credit for VANK activities.

The members of VANK have taken upon roles as cyber diplomats in order to isolate Japan from the global community, and to improve Korea’s national prestige. Their mission is to pervert the truth of the history for the benefit of Korea, to spread the false stories throughout the world, and to promote “Discount Japan” campaign!

VANK has produced various promotional materials which distort the facts of history, and tons of copies have been sent to more than 150 countries.

One case is the struggle of the possession of Takeshima. VANK says Dokdo (Takeshimam)is a territory of not Japan, but Korea. It’s unfavorable for Korea that Takeshima is located in the sea of Japan, so, VANK is in full activity to force many countries to change “ The sea of Japan” into“The East Sea” . Since, The sea of Japan is located in the east of only Korea!!

VANK says Takesnima had belonged to Korea before World War II, but you can see it’s a lie, when you read the following letter from Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State to Dean Gooderham Acheson, American Secretary of State dated August 10th in1951;

“ As regards the island of Dokdo, otherwise known as Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks, this normally uninhabited rock formation was according to our information never treated as part of Korea and, since about 1905, has been under the jurisdiction of the Oki Islands Branch Office of Shimane Prefecture of Japan. The island does not appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea. ”

Also, they are Cyber terrorists!! VANK carried out a cyber-attack against Japanese bulletin board system site 2.ch around 1 o’clock in the afternoon on March 1st in 2010. The denial-of-service attack by VANK interrupted services of a host connected to the Internet, and made network resource unavailable to its users.
On March 2nd, the amount of the damage reached about 220 million yen. The members of VANK did not know that web server of 2.ch was put in California. VANK did damage to many web sites including a management company of 2.ch, and the American government office. So, San Francisco City Police, and FBI investigated, and it became clear that DoS attacker wasVANK!!

https://youtu.be/cFCQgCjmPac

The Japanese Government presented a letter of protest as stated below, to the Government of the United States through the Government of Switzerland on August 10, 1945.

August 10, 1945

A New-Type, Cruel Bomb Ignoring International law; Imperial Govern-ment Protest to the Government of the United States.
With regard to the attack by a new-type bomb on the city of Hiroshima by a B-29 bomber on the 6th inst. the Imperial Government filed the following protest on the 10th inst. to the Government of the United States through the Government of Switzerland, and gave instructions to the Japanese Minister to Switzerland, Kase, to make the explanation of explanation of the same effect to the Inter-national Committee of Red Cross.

Protest against the Attack of a New-Type Bomb by American Airplane:

On the 6th of this month, an airplane of the United States dropped a new-type bomb on the urban district of the city of Hiroshima, and it killed and wounded a large number of the citizens and destroyed the bulk of the city. The city of Hiroshima is an crdinary local city which is not provided with any military defensive preparations or establishments, and the whole city has not a character of a military objective. In the statement on the aerial bom-bardment in this case, the United States President “Truman” asserts that they will destroy docks, factories and transport facilities.
However, since the bomb in this case, dropped by a parachute, explodes in the air and extends the destructive effect to quite a wide sphere, it is clear to be quite impossible in technique to limit the effect of attack thereby to such specific objectives as mentioned above; and the above efficiency of the bomb in this case is already known to the United States. In the light of the actual state of damage, the damaged district covers a wide area, and those who were in the district were all killed indiscriminately by bomb-shell blast and radiant heat without dis-tinction of combatant or non-combatant or of age or sex. The damaged sphere is general and immense, and judging from the most cruel one that ever existed. It is a fundamental principle of international law in time of war that a belligerent has not an unlimited right in chosing the means of injuring the enemy, and should not use such weapons, projectiles, and other material as cause unnecessary pain; and these are each expressly stipulated in the annex of the Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and artices 22 and 23(e) of the Regulations respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land. Since the beginning of the present World War, the Government of the United States has declared repeatedly that the use of poison or other inhumane methods of warfare has been regarded as illegal by the pubic opin-ion in civilized countries, and that the United States would not use these methods of warfare unless the other countries used these first. However, the bomb in this case, which the United States used this time, exceeds by far the indiscriminate and cruel character of efficiency, the poison and other weapons the use of which has been prohibited hitherto because of such an efficiency. Disregarding a fundamental principle of international law and humanity, the United States has already made indiscriminate aerial bombardments on cities of the Empire in very wide areas, and it has already killed and injured a large number of old people, children, and women and collapsed or burned down shrines, temples, schools, hospital and ordinary private houses. Also, the United States has used the new bomb in this case which has indiscriminate and cruel character beyond comparison with all weapons and projectile of the past. This is a new offence against the civilization of mankind. The Imperial Government impeaches the Government of the United States in its own name and the name of all mankind and of civilization, and demands strongly that the Government of the United States give up the use of such an inhumane weapon instantly.

Note: Japan Branch of the International Law Association, Japanese Annual of International Law, 8, pp.251-2. (Tokyo: 1964)