North Korea hopes Russia will assist with countering “fake news” in international media coverage of the country, the head of the DPRK’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said during a meeting with a visiting delegation of Russian state media executives in Pyongyang on Tuesday.

According to reports on the meeting by Russian state news agency TASS — who was represented by three of its top executives in the talks — KCNA signed a new cooperation agreement with TASS to replace the previous one signed in 2005.

Sergey Mikhailov, Director General of TASS — the only Russian outlet with a bureau