Russia’s vice-premier Yury Trutnev is set to arrive in Pyongyang on Monday for a three-day visit to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries.

Trutnev, who is also Russian president Vladimir Putin’s special envoy to the Far East, is accompanied by the governors of Russia’s far-eastern provinces Primorsky, Khabarovsky and Amursky.

The visit is the latest in a series of higher-level meetings between Russian and North Korean officials. In early April, the two countries signed an economic development protocol with the aim of increasing annual bilateral trade to $1 billion by 2020.

In late March, the President of the autonomous