PRK eventually offered the Khmer Rouge re-integration into Cambodia's national armed forces as well as reconciliation between the two parties. In August 1996, the regional command of Khmer Rouge travelled back to Phnom Penh. Pol Pot, the former Prime Minister of the Democratic Kampuchea, and his lieutenants stayed in the northern region to continue attempts at generating revenue from the extraction of natural resources. However, the group became irrelevant due to a lack of support. By 1998, Khmer Rouge had dissolved completely.