North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Pyongyang on Thursday evening, days after the U.S. accused the DPRK and Russia of engaging in secret arms transfers.

The Russian foreign ministry announced the meeting, releasing photographs of Lavrov at a table with Kim but without mentioning any details of their talks.

North Korean state media on Friday offered only a brief report on the meeting, saying that Kim sought to “establish a long-term plan for the new era of stable and future-oriented Russia-DPRK relations” with Lavrov.

With “political and strategic trustworthy relations as a