I call bullshit on you calling their statements bullshit

Defying nationwide restrictions on the slaughter of cattle for food, rural agencies in North Korea are quietly killing cows too old to work for sale as beef in local markets, North Korean sources say.

Though made readily available for North Korea’s ruling elite, beef is officially out of reach for the majority of the isolated, sanctions-hit country’s citizens, who subsist mostly on poultry or pork for their meat-sourced protein.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/cows-07292016164810.html

In North Korea, it is strictly prohibited to capture and slaughter these animals. It is a common understanding in North Korea that the illegal slaughtering of a cow is likely to bring upon the guilty party the death penalty

Only a select few in North Korea can experience having this near-sacred animal on their plate, for ordinary North Koreans it is inconceivable.

http://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang1/archives/2014/07/30160137.html