A North Korean foreign ministry official on Thursday expressed the country’s intention to open a “trading house” in the Russian Far East region of Primorye (Primorsky Krai) to promote trade of domestic goods, according to the official website of the region.

The announcement came after a meeting at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok between a DPRK delegation led by Minister of External Economic Relations Kim Yong Jae and Primorye acting Governor Andrey Tarasenko.

Kim said the DPRK is interested in intensifying trade relations with the Primorsky Territory, and that the new trading house will serve to both promote