North Korea Is Sending Munitions to Russia and, in Return, Is Getting — Goats

Advanced missiles may not be the most desperately needed commodity the Russians are giving the North Koreans by way of payment for millions of artillery shells. How about goats?

In a country where thousands of children are growing up stunted, the arrival of 447 goats, 432 females and 15 males, is creating as much excitement as boatloads of missiles and the technology to make many more of them.

The port city of Nampo, on the Yellow Sea 36 miles southwest of Pyongyang, “is equipping goat farms with necessary facilities and increasing the number of goats of good breed,” according to reports from Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency. “In this way, the city is working hard to boost the production of dairy goods.”