Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in North Korea, the Asian country's state news agency KCNA reported on Thursday.
The news agency noted that the visit will "mark a significant occasion in further consolidating the friendship and solidarity between the two countries, promoting the mutual trust, further energizing the bilateral relations in all fields and developing them onto a new high stage, true to the noble intention of the top leaders of the two countries."
During his trip to Pyongyang, the Russian top diplomat is set to meet the country's Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui and discuss "a wide range of issues of bilateral relations and the problems of the Korean Peninsula."