Private organizations will soon have the opportunity to conduct surveys at South Korea’s resettlement center for newly arrived defectors, the unification ministry announced Thursday.

But a nonprofit organization that lost access to the Hanawon facility two years ago says the announcement leaves key questions unanswered about how researchers can work with defectors.

“The Ministry of Unification invites private organizations to enter the North Korean Refugee Settlement Support Office … to conduct surveys on North Korean human rights in order to support private autonomous investigation and research on North Korean human rights,” the ministry said in a press release.

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