The Swedish Ambassador to North Korea met with a DPRK official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss potential consular visits for Canadian and U.S. detainees in the country, state media reported on Thursday.

According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Ambassador Torkel Stiernlöf met with the director general of the European Department two on the same day.

The pair discussed “the issue of bilateral relations and the issue of visit by consular officer to Canadian citizen Rim (Lim) Hyon Su,” according to KCNA.

Reverend Lim, a Korean-Canadian Pastor, was sentenced to a life of hard labor by North