It's good to be a dictator in a starving country:
"North Korea, one of the world’s poorest countries, imported 138 horses at a cost of $584,302 between 2010 and 2019"
(this is about purebred sport horses, not horses for work or meat)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/19/how-north-koreas-leader-buys-purebred-white-horses-from-russias-stud-farms-a69317
#northkorea