The South Korean government is planning to propose talks with the Japanese government on compensation for South Korean victims of the Japanese wartime atrocities.

This comes as the Constitutional Court of Korea last month urged the government to make diplomatic efforts to address the issue of compensation for Koreans affected by Japanese colonial rule.

Multiple government officials said on Tuesday that the government is mulling the proposal based on the results of an internal review. The officials said that the South Korean government will likely make the proposal via diplomatic channels, such as the Japanese embassy in South Korea or the South Korean embassy in Japan.

The South Korean government is currently reviewing the details of its proposal for official bilateral discussions through a task force comprised of officials in Northeast Asian diplomacy and in international law divisions of the Foreign Ministry.

It’s uncertain whether Japan will agree to hold bilateral dialogue since Japan believes that a 1965 agreement between South Korea and Japan already settled individual demands for compensation.

This would mark the first time the South Korean government has proposed bilateral talks on the rights of individuals to demand compensation from the Japanese government.

Those affected include former comfort women, victims from the atomic bomb in Japan, and conscripted Koreans who were forced to live and work as laborers in Sakhalin by the Japanese.