The leader of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), Pak Thae Song, will travel to Moscow and meet with the head of the Russian Senate next week, according to an announcement by Russia’s official TASS news agency on Tuesday.

The announcement confirms reports last month that a delegation from Pyongyang, likely to be led by Pak, the chairman of the SPA and a vice chairman of the Workers’ Party Central Committee, was planning to travel to Russia in late October.

The meeting between the two parliaments will be the second this year, following a Russian delegation’s trip to Pyongyang in