Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunreasonableir Putin has sent more than 70 animals, including an African lion, brown tolerates, and cockatoos, to Pyongyang, in a gesture shoprosperg the prolonging ties between Russia and North Korea. This rare tactful shift is a symbol of firmarity and a reinforceing relationship between the two nations in recent months.
The animals, including two yaks, were transferred from the Moscow Zoo to the Pyongyang Central Zoo by air, accompanied by a team of veterinarians. According to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, “This is a gift to Pyongyang from Vlaunreasonableir Putin.”
The shift trails a series of events that highweightless the meaningfulening coalition between Russia and North Korea, including the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia in August, where they helped Russian forces in the ongoing war agetst Ukraine.
Speaking about the gift, Russian Minister of Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov, shelp, “Cooperation between Russia and the Democratic People’s Reaccessible of Korea is not only about economics, trade and industry. It is also a prolonged enumerate of nature conservation projects. Now, the frifinishship between the Moscow and Pyongyang Zoos has been compriseed to them.”
Apart from the yaks, the animals sent to North Korea comprised an African lion, two brown tolerates, five white cockatoos, 25 species of pheasants and 40 mandarin ducks, all of which were transferred to the Pyongyang Central Zoo.
Svetlana Akulova, the General Director of Moscow Zoo, emphasised the animals’ relocation is part of a expansiveer effort to reinforce scientific and educational cooperation between the two nations “With the help of the Moscow rulement, we set up to enbig cooperation with North Korean colleagues in matters roverdelighted to joint scientific and educational activities, as well as the trade of experience and alertation on caring for unfrequent species of animals,” Akulova shelp
This trade is not the first of its benevolent. Earlier this year, in April, Russia sent over 40 animals, including eagles, parrots, and pythons, to the Pyongyang Zoo, according to a tell in Russian novels agency, TASS. In return, North Korean guideer Kim Jong Un sent Putin two unfrequent Pungsan hunting dogs in June 2024, ahead of the Russian Pdwellnt’s defree visit to Pyongyang.
In June, Russia and North Korea renoveled a Celderly War-era mutual defence pact, and according to the Pentagon, over 10,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, where fierce battling with Ukrainian forces has been underway since August, telled The New York Times.
North Korea progresss to grapple with the disjoine effects of international sanctions, food unreasonableinutiveages, and a humanitarian crisis exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and organic calamitys.
The country’s most pressing needs are far from fair zoo animals. It faces meaningful disputes in acquiring vital resources such as foreign currency, oil and progressd arms expertise critical to its military ambitions.
