Bangkok: Asean needs to be more integrated and stronger to cope with the changing global landscape, as multilateralism was in decline, former Asean chief Surin Pitsuwan said, calling on the regional grouping to enhance the role of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) to solve the crisis in the Korean Peninsula.
The secretive communist state North Korea was included as a member of the ARF in 2000 when Surin was the foreign minister of Thailand, which then chaired Asean, to engage with the international forum.
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