Following the recent inter-Korean family reunions, nongovernmental exchanges between the two Koreas are picking up.
 
Ace Gyeongam Foundation, a private organization that provides aid to North Korea, entered the North on Tuesday carrying greenhouse construction materials, 15 tons of fertilizer as well as saplings provided by the Green Asia Foundation.
 
Meanwhile, The Catholic Priests’ Association for Justice visited the North at the invitation of a North Korean Catholic association and attended a mass in Pyongyang last Sunday to pray for peaceful unification of the two Koreas.
 
The association will return home on Tuesday. The last time the South Korean association took part in such a mass in the North was in 2008.
 
The Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions will depart for the North on Wednesday to take part in a unification soccer tournament in Pyongyang. The event is being held for the first time in eight years.