Putin beforehand gifted Kim 24 purebred horses, identified to be Kim’s accepted, while Kim sent Putin a pair of local canines
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20 November, 2024, 08:05 pm
Closing modified: 20 November, 2024, 08:10 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korea dozens of animals, in conjunction with a lion and two bears, as a tag of friendship between Moscow and Pyongyang, Russian officials said Wednesday.
The 2 countries possess deepened political, militia and cultural ties amid Russia’s offensive on Ukraine, with Putin and North Korean chief Kim Jong Un continuously professing their non-public camaraderie.
“An African lion, two brown bears, two home yaks, 5 white cockatoos, 25 pheasants of a host of species and 40 mandarin geese were transferred from the Moscow Zoo to the Pyongyang Zoo,” Russia’s pure resources ministry said in a put up on Telegram.
It posted a video of the animals in cargo boxes being unloaded off a govt airplane, and one other of the lion in its fresh enclosure at the Pyongyang Zoo.
Putin beforehand gifted Kim 24 purebred horses, identified to be Kim’s accepted, while Kim sent Putin a pair of local canines.
The 2 countries, every below heavy Western sanctions, signed a mutual defence pact earlier this one year that obligates them to produce immediate militia support if the different is invaded.
Western capitals, as successfully as Ukraine and South Korea, say North Korea has currently deployed more than 10,000 of its troops to Russia, to be sent into wrestle towards Kyiv’s forces.
