North Korea agreed Friday to former South Korean first lady Lee Hee-ho’s plan to make an overland trip to the communist country, one of her aides said.

The North also promised to allow the wife of late former President Kim Dae-jung to stay at the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse in Pyongyang, according to former culture minister Kim Sung-hoon.

But no date has been set yet for the date of Lee’s planned visit and the size of her entourage, he added.

“We agreed to discuss the matters in the second working-level contact,” Kim told reporters, returning from the Kaesong Industrial Complex. He met with North Korean officials there to discuss Lee’s plan to travel to Pyongyang as part of a humanitarian aid program.

The North’s delegation was led by Won Dong-yon, the deputy head of the United Front Department and vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific Committee.

Kim, a member of the Kim Dae Jung Peace Center, delivered Lee’s message for the North’s leader Kim Jong-un that she is looking forward to meeting him.

The North gave no direct response to that, he said, without revealing when the second round of discussions will be held.

Lee Hee-ho, 92, expressed hope for traveling to North Korea in meeting with President Park Geun-hye in late October. Park responded positively.

She plans to visit two day care centers for babies and children there to provide them with aid materials.

Lee’s aides have been in consultations with the North’s Asia-Pacific Peace Committee handling inter-Korean affairs including joint economic projects.

It would be her second trip to Pyongyang in three years.

She made her last trip to Pyongyang in December 2011 to attend the funeral of Kim Jong-il. At that time, she met with the current leader, Kim Jong-un. She also visited there in 2000, accompanying her husband, for the historic inter-Korean summit talks.

She would become the highest-profile South Korean figure to visit North Korea in recent months with government-level dialogue suspended amid prolonged military tensions. (Yonhap)