Officials from the shuttered inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) are in negotiations with Seoul to visit the facility within three weeks, a former KIC business owner told NK News on Monday.

KIC, once a symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation, was temporarily closed by the Park Geun-hye administration 15 months ago as part of Seoul’s response to Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test in January that year.

“The KIC directorate has made a decision to push for a visit this upcoming June 15,” Lee Jong-deok, a representative of Young Inner Foam, a company which worked at KIC before its closure, told