Russian officials said North Korea's first vice foreign minister Kim Kye-Gwan would meet tomorrow with First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov and Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov.
"We will discuss the prospects of launching a new six-party negotiating process," Morgulov told reporters yesterday.
"Russia has always firmly insisted that the six-party process has no alternatives," he said. "We will discuss this with our North Korean partners."
Kim has been a key figure in six-party talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme in exchange for aid and security guarantees.
North Korea has vowed never to give up its nuclear power but says it is open to direct talks with the United States. Kim late last month discussed restarting the six-party talks in Beijing with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi.