The South Korean presidential office on Monday welcomed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s suggestion to hold an inter-Korean meeting about the forthcoming Winter Olympics in his New Year speech.

The proposed talks would be significant because the two countries have not had substantive inter-Korean talks since a landmine maimed two South Korean soldiers in August 2015.

“The Blue House welcomes the expressed intention to send a delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and proposed meeting between the authorities of the South and the North to that end,” presidential spokesperson Park Soo-hyun said on Monday in a televised news