Jeju horses Some 100 horses run onto a field at Mount Halla on the southern resort island of Jeju on April 20, 2025, as they take part in a festival celebrating the cultural and historic value of the local breed of horses, in this photo provided by the Jeju provincial government. (Yonhap)
These have to be some strong horses to haul Kim Jong-il around on:
North Korea has reportedly imported more than 20 Russian horses, known as “Kim Jong-un’s Ama.”
According to the US Radio Free Asia (RFA) on the 27th (local time), Russia’s Primorsky Krai Agricultural and Fisheries Supervisory Service sent 24 Orlov Trotter horses to North Korea on the 25th. (….)
Orlov is known to be the preferred breed of the Kim family as a handsome, obedient, and patient Junma. Kim Jong-un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission, is also called “Kim Jong-un’s Ama” because he was seen climbing Mount Baekdu on an Orlov Junma at the end of 2019.
In February last year, a white horse appeared that Chairman Kim’s daughter Joo-ae was riding at a military parade commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Army.
Horses indigenous to Jeju Island Jeju horses, designated as a natural monument, are released into a pasture in the city of Jeju on South Korea’s southern resort island of the same name on April 28, 2024, after spending the winter in sheds. (Yonhap)