30 August 2019
A delegation from the
North Korean government will take part in the fifth Eastern Economic Forum in
Vladivostok on 4–6 September. The delegation will be headed by Vice
Premier of the DPRK Cabinet of Ministers Ri Ryong-nam, the DPRK Embassy in the
Russian Federation said.
Ri Ryong-nam is
expected to hold a series of meetings on the sidelines of the Forum to discuss measures
and ways to bolster economic cooperation between the two countries. In
particular, North Korea is interested in organizing working meetings with
Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in
the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev and Russian Minister for the
Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic Alexander Kozlov.
An official delegation
from the DPRK also took part in the Eastern Economic Forum 2018.