The Unification Ministry says the CEO of a former tour operator to North Korea’s Mount Geumgang resort has again traveled to the North to discuss the rights to his assets there.

Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said six Hyundai Asan officials including CEO Jang Gyeong-jak went to the resort on Wednesday. Hyundai Asan had been the exclusive tourism business operator to the mountain resort.

Jang said he would meet with deputy manager of the North’s guidance bureau of the special zone for Mount Geumgang Ri Chung-bok. The two previously met on August fourth during a memorial service for former Hyundai chairman Chung Mong-hun.

The North has refused an offer for a bilateral meeting with the South Korean government regarding Hyundai Asan's suspended assets at Mount Geumgang and said it intends to run the tourist business on its own.

Hyundai Asan severed relations with North Korean resort when a South Korean tourist was shot and killed there in 2008.