Senior Russian and North Korean diplomats met in Moscow on Monday to discuss the fate of a group of North Korean fishermen currently detained in Russia for illegal fishing in the country’s waters.

According to a statement released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and DPRK chargé d’affaires in Moscow Jin Jong Hyop “discussed a set of measures necessary to prevent similar incidents in the future.”

Monday’s talks were ambassador Jin’s second with a senior foreign ministry official since last week’s incident, which saw 161 DPRK nationals and 13 boats taken into Russian custody