Overview

• The Unification Ministry outlined a reorganization that brings back a dedicated talks office to oversee dialogue and liaison with North Korea.
• The overhaul sets goals to reopen suspended communication lines with Pyongyang and to institutionalize regular inter-Korean talks.
• New economic cooperation units, including a Peace Exchange Office and a task force for peace cooperation districts, will target resuming projects such as Kaesong normalization.
• Staffing across the ministry and affiliated bodies would increase to 600 from 533 under the plan.
• The ministry will restructure its human rights and humanitarian functions into a Social and Cultural Cooperation Bureau and create a Korean Peninsula Policy Dialogue Group under the minister.