TWO years on from his Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, US President Donald Trump's signature foreign policy initiative lies in tatters. Yet, while the president's grand diplomacy risks collapsing completely, there remains a significant possibility that several inter-Korean projects could still move forward between the North and South.

Only last month, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has been strengthened politically following the overwhelming win of his ruling Democratic Party in April's parliamentary elections, highlighted that he will intensify the push for improvement of inter-Korean relations during his remaining period of office.

There are several ambitions here. To underpin this, the South Korean government has prepared a draft amendment to the inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act to simplify the process of engaging North Korea; and conducted a survey to register the demilitarised zone - a symbol of inter-Korean confrontation - into a Unesco World Heritage site.