The Cuban special envoy, on behalf of Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz, visited Pyongyang and met with the North Korean government’s highest officials on Tuesday, state-run Rodong Sinmun reported Wednesday.

The meeting took place about three weeks after the South Korean foreign minister visited Havana to discuss possible diplomatic normalization. Seoul and Havana’s diplomatic relations were ceased after the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

“Expressing a belief that the current visit would serve as a significant occasion for further developing the traditional relations of friendship … Cuba would develop the relations with the fraternal Korean people in the future,” wrote the