A new poll shows that four out of ten South Koreans regard Japan as a military threat to South Korea.

In a survey of some two-thousand South Korean and Japanese people jointly conducted by a South Koran think tank and a Japanese civic organization, 43-point-nine percent of South Korean respondents said that Japan poses a military threat to South Korea.

Eighty-six-point-seven percent said North Korea is a military threat to South Korea, and 47-point-eight percent said China is.

Among Japanese respondents, only 12-point-two percent answered that South Korea is a military threat to their country.

Most pointed to other nations as a threat. Ninety-seven percent said North Korea, 60 percent said China and 19 percent said Russia.

Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer.

The survey has a 95 percent confidence level with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three-point-one percentage points.