South Korea and Japan are engaged in a furious row over Bond villain-lair Battleship Island.
The Island of Hashima, which served as the set for Javier Bardem’s Bond baddie in 2012’s Skyfall, was one of 23 Japanese sites given world heritage status five years ago by Unesco.
Until it was abandoned in 1971 the island was the entrance to one of the world’s most unusual coal mines, and at its peak housed 5,300 workers.
Korea is furious that Japan has attempted to airbrush the fact that many of the workers on the island were in fact Chinese and Korean slave-labourers.
