The South Korean Government announced on Wednesday that it will resume funding a program training North Korean doctors in Germany, after a seven year hiatus.

Seoul’s Ministry of Unification (MoU) will provide $83,000 dollars to the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare via the inter-Korean cooperation fund, a resource established in 1990 to boost exchanges and cooperation between the North and South.

The move is thought to be part of President Park Geun Hye’s plans to expand humanitarian aid with the DPRK.

“[The project] was conducted in 2007 and 2008 twice. But stopped because of the 5.24 sanctions in 2010. However,