Georgia’s legislature adopts resolution on East Sea

ATLANTA, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) — A U.S. state legislature took a highly symbolic step Tuesday supporting South Korea’s campaign to promote the use of the “East Sea” to identify the waters between Korea and Japan.

The state’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution describing the Korean Peninsula as “bound by its East and West Seas.”

It notes South Korea is “one of the strongest allies and closest trading partners of the United States.”

The resolution was sponsored by a Republican Sen. David Shafer, who has closely worked with Kim He-beom, South Korea’s consul general in Atlanta.

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