The South Korean city of Hwaseong, about 26 miles south of Seoul, plans to propose a ferry connecting it with North Korea’s Haeju, as well as other forms of business cooperation with the provincial capital, in a longshot effort to achieve a breakthrough in stalled inter-Korean ties.

Lim Jong-seok, the Moon administration’s special adviser for foreign affairs, announced Hwaseong’s plan to cooperate with Haeju on fourteen projects in a Facebook post Sunday.

It is unclear, however, whether the proposal has any chance of getting off the ground. North Korea has implemented strict anti-coronavirus measuressince January last year, closing borders