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Putin gives North Korea a lioness, cockatoos and bears

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered North Korea dozens of animals for a zoo in Pyongyang. “An African lion, two brown bears, two domestic yaks, five white cockatoos, 25 pheasants of different species and 40 mandarin ducks were transferred from the Moscow Zoo to the Pyongyang Zoo,” the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources said.

The minister, Alexander Kozlov, who visited North Korea, stressed that it was a “gift from Vladimir Putin”.