REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesia has good position to calm down the tension between North Korea and South Korea, as the nation has good relations with both Korea.
"It is important for Indonesia to be involved and calmed down the situation," foreign policy expert at Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Dewi Fortuna Anwar, said on Wednesday.
She said that Jakarta has a tight trade relations with Seoul, while Pyongyang considers Jakarta as a best friend. Crisis in Korean peninsula heats up as North Korea declares war last Saturday. North Korea also repeated its threat to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. Pyongyang said it had ratified a potential strike because of US military deployments around the Korean peninsula that it claimed were a prelude to a possible nuclear attack on the North.
"The threat is unpredictable," she said.
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