South Korea’s presidential committee and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety plan to conduct new research into ways to reinvigorate the regional economy by improving inter-Korean economic cooperation, documents seen by NK News revealed this week.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety this week announced plans to commission a three-month-long “policy research on ways to revitalize the economy in the border areas in the era of inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation.”

Explaining the significance of the project, the ministry said it was necessary to “establish a system and prepare for the direction and contents of the project systematically,” explaining that