Update at 12:50 KST: This article has been updated to include comment from an expert.

South Korea’s top official working on North Korea is expected to visit the U.S. next week and meet with officials in Washington to “exchange ideas” about peace on the Korean peninsula, Seoul’s Ministry of Unification (MOU) said Tuesday in a statement.

Minister Kim Yeon-chul is expected to discuss the stalled nuclear negotiations with North Korea and prospects for peace on the peninsula, as well as the fate of a once-celebrated and now-shuttered inter-Korean tourist project in the DPRK’s Mt. Kumgang region.

The visit would be