A group of officials from North Korea’s Central Court — the country’s highest legal body — departed Pyongyang on Saturday for a visit to Laos and Vietnam, the country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

The delegation is led by Central Court President Kang Yun Sok, the KCNA reported, with no further details regarding their agenda during the trip.

Kang, who sits on the Supreme People’s Assembly’s (SPA) Legislation Committee, serves as one of North Korea’s top lawyers and legal officials.

He has in that capacity overseen several of the DPRK’s most high-profile criminal cases, including the 2017 sentencing of American