Antara News, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 21:47 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has expressed deep concern over the armed clash between North Korea and South Korea on Yeonpyeong island that has claimed lives.
Indonesia urges the two sides to immediately stop the hostility and to restraint themselves maximally to avoid increasing tension, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said in a press statement issued here on Tuesday evening.
Marty said the Indonesian government underlined the importance of resuming the six-party talks by South Korea, North Korea, the United States, Russia, China and Japan to discuss all aspects relating to creation of peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea fired artillery to Yeonpyeong island close to the maritime border between North and South Korea triggering a firefight.
North Korea did not recognize the border considering it as being determined unilaterally by the US after the 1950-1953 Korean War ended with a truce.
Three marine battles occured in the region in 1999 and South Korea had blamed North Korea for its attack that had sank South Korean warship in March this year.
In its statement to North Korea`s state news agency KCNA as quoted by South Korea`s Yonhap the North Korean supreme military command has accused South Korea of starting the tension by firing the North.
Efforts to reduce tension between the two countries triggered by North Korea`s controversial nuclear program through the six-party talks ended in 2008.
North Korea left the forum in April 2009 and five months later it announced that it had reached the final stage of utanium enrichment program which is an important step ahead of making a nublear bomb.
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