Moon Jae-in will visit the Vatican next week, and the South Korean leader will go bearing a special invite for Pope Francis. The New York Times reports Moon will serve as the messenger for Kim Jong Un, who's requesting that the pontiff pay him a visit in North Korea. "If the pope visits Pyongyang, we will give him a rousing welcome," Kim told Moon when the latter met with him in Pyongyang in September, per Moon's spokesman. Although the Times considers an RSVP of "yes" as "highly unlikely"—no pope has ever visited North Korea—Moon, a Roman Catholic, is said to desire the get-together as a chance to recruit the pope to help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The Times notes that North Korea was ranked No. 1 on a list of the worst nations for Christians by the Christian group Open Doors. (More Kim Jong Un stories.)