Choe Son Hui, the North Korean foreign ministry’s director of the North American department, arrived in Russia on Monday, the DPRK’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

She is reportedly slated to hold talks with Oleg Burmistrov, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Ambassador-at-Large, who she previously met with in Pyongyang in July and who previously served as part of Moscow’s delegation to the Six-Party Talks.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK reportedearlier on Monday that Choe was spotted after landing at Vladivostok Airport earlier in the day, but she did not comment on the purpose or itinerary of her