Russian Foreign Ministry deputy head, Andrei Rudenko, has stated that he has no information about Russia's purported plans to increase rice supplies to North Korea (DPRK) to 600-700 thousand tons annually from the current 50-100 thousand tons. He mentioned that an upcoming Russian-DPRK intergovernmental commission meeting would likely discuss agricultural cooperation and other issues. The report of the potential supply increase was previously published in The Korea Herald.