Posted on 04/01/2013 1:48:43 PM PDT by don-o
North Koreans are being forced to make fertilizer for the regime. A source in Beijing on Sunday said, "Fertilizer is essential for the spring sowing season, but North Korea has almost no chemical fertilizer, so the government ordered every person to produce hundreds of kilograms."
In North Korea, fertilizer is usually made by mixing human feces with straw, but the excrement is harder to come by than one might expect. The source said, "There are cases of theft of squat toilets because of this, and people are putting locks on their lavatories to prevent this."
Until 2007, South Korea gave North Korea some 300,000 tons of chemical fertilizer a year. Until last year, farmers survived on the remainder and with help from China, but the reserves have run out and assistance from Beijing dwindled as the regime ignored Chinese pleas to desist from its nuclear and missile tests.
A North Korea expert in China said, "North Koreans are not only forced to produce more fertilizer but also to collect more scrap metal. The dire domestic situation could explain why the regime has been spouting so much belligerent rhetoric recently."
Date on article is April 2.
It’s April 1st somewhere.
Bob Hope stepped off the plane in Korea to do a USO show.
He said “OH MY! What is that SMELL?”
His host said “Well, here in Korea, they use... human fertilizer.”
Bob Hope said “I know. But what did they DO to it?”
I know it. But, it’s at ;east plausible if China is holding back supplies to the Kook.
How are they supposed to produce waste when they are barely eating?
But Soylent Green is people.
No, it’s “Kim Chee is People!”
... A country where people have to lock up their turds for fear that they will be stolen... and we let these people develop nuclear weapons?
They are really squeezing the people...
And then you have to figure what the hell is there to eat in North Korea. I mean they’re eating mud and farting dust.
This is why the rhetoric is amped up. they have a LOT of people starving there. The young f-nut in charge ain’t cutting it very well there. Can’t expect much from crazy. Wonder which general will start the coup there.
I could help them out single-handedly with my Metamucil.
They’re too poor to poop, but they want to enter into a full intensity military action.
Garbage in. Garbage out. The key here and what is lacking in NK is that you have to have input to have output.
It takes food to produce fertilizer.
Just send our congressmen over there, they’ve got enough crap coming out of their mouths to cover the whole country in fertilizer.
Didn’t Pharaoh command the Israelites to make bricks without straw? That did not work out well
The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s....
Here we euthanize multiple thousands of stray dogs and cats. Let NK send over a few cargo planes and we can ship them plenty of live meat if they come and collect it all. Whatever is left they can compost it for fertilizer. Otherwise that tubby leader is full of enough crap to fertilize the masses.
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