Representatives from Moscow’s State Linguistic University (MSLU) and Pyongyang’s University of Foreign Languages (PUFL) signed an academic cooperation agreement, the Russian embassy in North Korea announced on Friday.

According to the embassy, the agreement was signed by MSLU acting President Irina Kraeva and her counterpart and President of PUFL Pak Jong Jin.

“The agreement provides for the exchange of teachers and students, joint academic and practical conferences, interaction in the fields of methodology of teaching and learning foreign languages,” a post on the Russian embassy’s Facebook page read.

“We hope that the leading linguistic universities of Russia and the DPRK will