THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is ready to airlift Filipinos in South Korea if tensions between North Korea and South Korea escalate, a military official said on Monday.

“We are always in close coordination with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in crisis situation such as this. This had happened before so our air assets are ready to support whatever the decision or the policy of the DFA is,” Col. Noel Detoyato, chief of the AFP Public Affairs Office, said.

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