A South Korean NGO on Wednesday received government approval to make contact with the North, the second such approval by the Moon Jae-in administration so far.

“Yes, we are now authorized to exchange handwritten letters or faxes with our counterparts in the North,” Lee Seung-hwan, a representative of the June 15 South Korean Committee, told NK News.

Exchanges through email or phone calls are not an option, Lee said, as their North Korean counterparts are not permitted to use them.

“I welcome the fact that a minimum level of inter-Korean connection has been restored,” Lee said.

Private inter-Korean contact was banned by the