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Russia has sent 30 prized thoroughbred horses to North Korea just days after the White House alleged Pyongyang supplied artillery shells for Putin's war efforts.
The prized Orlov Trotters were shipped via cargo train and are considered a sign of status and wealth in North Korea.
There are mounting concerns the shipment may have been payment for Kim Jong-un's support of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, particularly after Russian media revealed plans are underway to deliver medicine to the pariah state in the near future.
On Wednesday, the White House revealed intelligence suggested North Korea was covertly sending weapons shipments to bolster Russia's supplies.
'Our information indicates that the DPRK is covertly supplying Russia's war in Ukraine with a significant number of artillery shells, while obfuscating the real destination of the arms shipments by trying to make it appear as though they're being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa,' John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, said.
Kim Jong-un was pictured on the back of an Orlov Trotter in October 2019, when he climbed the sacred Mount Paektusan on horseback
Mr Kirby said the shells would not 'change the course of the war', but raised enough of a concern that it would be monitored by United States officials
