The South Korean government could potentially ask for exemptions from international sanctions in order to pursue cooperation with the North, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters following a meeting with U.S. and Japanese counterparts in Silicon Valley, minister Kang Kyung-wha reiterated Seoul’s plans to seek new ways to push ahead with long-stalled inter-Korean cooperation projects.

The two Koreas have already agreed to restart cooperation in a number of areas, Kang said, including some in “areas that were not especially problematic in regards to sanctions.”

“But I clearly think that there are also projects which, if there