North Koreans have been ordered to collect POO to help the country’s agricultural sector.
Survivors of the dictatorship’s brutal regime say leader Kim Jong Un and other authorities are demandinghuman fecesto help farms in the country to continue delivering crops.
It had previously relied on neighbour South Korea for fertiliser, but it imposed an embargo in 2010 after the North sank one of its ships.
It did send some supplies last year but relations are deteriorating once again.
According toThe StarYeonmi Park, who escaped from North Korea in 2007, wrote of her experience of how families were forced to collect animal and human feces to make up the shortfall.
She said: “The government came up with a campaign to fill the fertiliser gap with a local and renewable source: human and animal waste.
“Every worker and every school had a quota to fill. You can imagine what kind of problems this created for our families
Every member of the household had a daily assignment, so when we got up in the morning, it was like a war. My aunts were the most competitive.”
She wrote how her family became competitive about how much they could produce and Canada’sNational Postreported that shops even began selling it in 2010…Continue Reading
