Tours to North Korea’s Mount Geumgang will get back on track Friday in line with the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the tourism program.

With the normalization of the tours, the daily quota of South Korean visitors to the scenic mountain resort will no longer be restricted to six-hundred.

In addition, tourists can now choose between one- or two-day trips to the mountain resort or opt for the existing three-day tour package.

Senior officials of the tour project’s main operator Hyundai Asan, including Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun, will head for the North Friday to attend a joint South-North ceremony that will be held the following day to mark the seventh anniversary of the launch of the program.

In particular, attention is focusing on whether Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, who will accompany the Hyundai Asan delegation, will meet with Vice Chairman of the North’s Asia-Pacific Peace Committee Ri Jong-hyuck on the sidelines of the ceremony.

The tours were normalized shortly after Hyun's visit to the communist state last week, during which they resolved the dispute over the group's ousting of its former point man on North Korean affairs, Kim Yoon-kyu.

The North halved the daily quota of South Korean visitors to Mout Geumgang to six-hundred after Kim, a Pyongyang favorite, was ousted in August for allegedly embezzling company funds.