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Yonhap (13 August 2024)

Kim Soo-yeon

Russia's agriculture safety watchdog has approved the shipment of 447 goats to North Korea after reviewing related veterinary and sanitary conditions, according to its website, amid deepening cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow.

After veterinary inspection, 432 female and 15 male goats were sent to a North Korean trading company in the first batch of exports of live animals to the North, according to a statement posted on the website of Russia's Rosselkhoznadzor on Friday.

The shipment was intended to be delivered from Russia's Leningrad region to North Korea's border city of Rason, it said.

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