JAKARTA: Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said on Friday (Jul 31) that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung asked him whether he could visit North Korea to open dialogue, adding that he would go. "During my last visit to South Korea, their president asked me if I could visit North Korea to open some kind of a dialogue. I told him, with all due respect and willingness, if you asked me to, I would go," he said. Lee and Prabowo discussed energy security and agreed to expand cooperation in areas such as defence during the April meeting. Lee has sought to ease tensions with Pyongyang since taking office last year, but repeated ⁠overtures ​for dialogue have been rebuffed ​by North Korea, which declared South Korea as a "hostile nation" in ​2024.