North Korean and Russian energy officials held talks in Pyongyang on Friday to address ways Russia can help improve the North’s energy grid, the country’s embassy reported on Monday.

Leading a delegation to Pyongyang for the 4th meeting of the Russia-DPRK joint working group on cooperation in the field of electric power industry was Russian Ministry of Energy deputy minister Anton Inyutsyn.

North Korean Ministry of Electric Power Industry deputy minister Ju Yong — previously known as director of the ministry’s Hydroelectricity Administration Department — led the talks for the North, the embassy said, with the two signing a protocol