A South Korean civic group that has been conducting high-profile balloon launches toward North Korea says it is considering suspending its anti-regime leafleting following a phone call with the country’s newly appointed vice unification minister.

Kim Nam-jung spoke by phone on Monday with Choi Sung-ryong, the head of the Abductee’s Family Union, and conveyed the government’s renewed commitment to addressing the long-standing abduction issue, according to Seoul’s unification ministry and the civic group.

During the call, vice unification minister Kim pledged to listen more closely to the concerns of families of South Koreans abducted by the North and to