In his first visit to the Russian Federation, the chair of the DPRK’s Supreme People’s Assembly Pak Thae Song met with the chair of the Russian parliament’s lower house Vyacheslav Volodin in Moscow this week.

The meeting occurred on the heels of a rough patch in Moscow-Pyongyang relations, following sweeping arrests of North Korean poachers by Russian law enforcement authorities. 

Nevertheless, the recent low point in North Korea-Russia ties hardly seemed to register during this week’s parliamentary summit. 

In the Russian capital, the two senior lawmakers exchanged expressions of solidarity as well as concrete proposals for further cooperation