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Jacob Fromer
Jacob Fromer is NK News's Washington DC correspondent. He previously worked in the U.S. Senate.
North Korea imported a dozen purebred horses worth tens of thousands of dollars from Russia in October 2019, trade data recently made public by the Russian government showed.
The horses, worth a combined $75,509.76, were shipped to the DPRK the same month that leader Kim Jong Un made the first of two high-profile visits to Mount Paektu on horseback.