Ri Su Yong, one of North Korea’s most senior diplomats, is leading a delegation to Cuba this week, state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported late Monday.

The trip will be Ri’s second to Havana in under a year, and his first overseas visit since notably being left out of the delegation sent to Vladivostok for Kim Jong Un’s summit with the Russian President last month.

Ri, who serves as a vice-chairman of the Workers Party of Korea’s (WPK) Central Committee and head of its International Department, was said to have left Pyongyang on Monday to lead a “party and