Pyongyang (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Pyongyang city zoo will become the temporary of home of two orangutans from Indonesia.
Jakarta plans to lend a pair of orang-utans from the Ragunan Zoo in South Jakarta’s to its sister city, Pyongyang.
“Delegates from North Korea asked me for the orang-utans. We will lend them a pair,” Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama said.
“Once the orang-utans give birth and the babies are old enough to survive by themselves, Pyongyang will return the orang-utans to us and breed the babies themselves,” he added.
The North Korean request came during a recent diplomatic meeting between the two countries.
Purnama said that he would ask for something in exchange but did not elaborate on what that might be.
Like the waterpark, Pyongyang Zoo is one of the city’s two major public attractions.
Although he said he would spend "big bucks" for more public entertainment, North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un has had to postpone his plans because of the country’s poor financial situation.