| A letter threatening to hunt Koreans was delivered to the South Korean embassy in Tokyo last week. Korea Times file |
By Park Si-soo
A letter threatening to hunt Koreans and containing what appeared to be a bullet was delivered to the South Korean embassy in Tokyo last week, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a local news report.
"I've got a rifle and I'm hunting Koreans," reads the letter. Further details are unknown.
Japanese police have launched an investigation to find the letter's sender.
The incident comes as South Korea-Japan ties are at their worst in decades as a result of ongoing historic and diplomatic conflicts.
Relations between the two countries have been overshadowed by Japan's 1910-1945 colonialization of the Korean Peninsula. Recently, a dispute over Korean forced laborers spilled into the trade sector and then into security when Korea decided to scrap an intelligence-sharing pact last month.