Seoul may send a presidential special envoy to Pyongyang in the very near future to facilitate preparations for an inter-Korean summit slated to take place on April 27, South Korea’s Blue House said on Tuesday.

Im Jong-seok, head of the summit preparatory committee, told press that the possibility of sending National Intelligence Service (NIS) head Suh Hoon or National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong to the DPRK capital “remains open if necessary.”

Im, who also serves as Chief Presidential Secretary, denied suggestions that Seoul needed to dispatch a special envoy due to disagreements between the two Koreas.

“I’d like to say that it has been prepared smoothly until now,” he told