A map made by Britain and sent to the U.S. on April 7, 1951. It indicate that before the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, the U.S. State Department considered Tokto Korean territory.
U.S. documents and a newly discovered Japanese map indicate that Korea's easternmost islets of Tokto were recognized as part of Korea at least from the 18th century. Professor Kim Moon-gil of Pusan University of Foreign Studies on Sunday revealed a 220-year-old map of the Korean Peninsula produced by Japanese geographer Shihei Hayashi in 1785. The map described Ullungdo and Tokto as one large island and marked the sea around Ullungdo as the ``East Sea,'' not the ``Sea of Japan.'' Other documents disclosed by Mokpo National University's Professor Jung Byung-joon indicate that before the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, the U.S. State Department considered Tokto Korean territory. Jung found two documents named ``The Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands in Draft Japanese Peace Treaty'' in the department's archives. The documents were written on July 13 and 16, 1951, before the victors in World War II, led by the United States and Britain, completed the final draft of the treaty on Aug. 13. It was signed by Japan on Sept. 8. | 
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