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.