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Skinny jeans, adult films, human excrement sell 'like hot cakes' in North Korea
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Posted on 12/28/2010 10:56:24 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Skinny jeans, adult films, human excrement sell 'like hot cakes' in North Korea

* From: NewsCore * December 29, 2010 5:27AM

SKINNY jeans, adult films and human excrement are among some of the most wanted items for consumers in North Korea.

Kim Young-soo, a professor at Seoul's Sogang University who has interviewed several recent defectors from the Communist country, said that the items were selling "like hot cakes".

Other popular items sold in North Korea included TV dramas and instant noodles, he said.

Yonhap news agency reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertiliser in North Korea.

"Each household used to use human excrement as fertilizer, but because it's hard to keep up with the amount, human manure shops showed up at markets," Professor Kim said.

Skinny jeans also became popular items for sale in the North after a ban on fashionable trousers was lifted.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jeans; korea; nk; poop
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To: Sub-Driver
don't knock it if you haven't tried it!!

The Asian continent historically has used human excrement for fertilizer. Much of the food you eat comes from Asia, including China, and was most likely fertilized that way.

Remember the term “honey bucket?” That was a yoke with a bucket of human excrement on each end, carried over the coolie's neck being taken out to the fields.

You youngsters on FR just don't know about the finer things in life!

41 posted on 12/28/2010 11:50:24 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: US Navy Vet
23 million in a country the size of Mississippi must have a lot of doo doo to go around.

42 posted on 12/28/2010 11:53:46 AM PST by SouthDixie (The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.)
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To: Flag_This
We tried. It was called the Korean War and we lost 53,000 + Americans. Thank China.

No it was called a Police Action, and you can thank Harry @ss Truman for the defeat and loss of lives. He also gets credit for the survival of Mao.

43 posted on 12/28/2010 11:58:15 AM PST by itsahoot (We the people, allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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To: SouthDixie

How could a family fertilize even a small garden with only their own poop?


44 posted on 12/28/2010 12:00:07 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: al baby

The county will apply sewage sludge to pasture land for hauling cost only. It will really green up a field, but it is horrid for the first week or two.


45 posted on 12/28/2010 12:09:57 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: boop
I can't imagine although Mad Human Disease comes to mind.

46 posted on 12/28/2010 12:20:14 PM PST by SouthDixie (The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Agreed. One would hope that the U.S, Russia, and China can sit down and say-”Listen. We all understand poking each other in the eye with a stick but what’s going on in North Korea just isn’t right. Let’s just agree to let South Korea slowly integrate the North back into the country. C’mon. The three of us are powerful and rich enough”.


47 posted on 12/28/2010 12:53:43 PM PST by MattinNJ (Palin and/or Pence.)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
The left's goal for America is for it to look like North Korea at night:


48 posted on 12/28/2010 1:03:29 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Sub-Driver

At first glace, I read “fashionable trousers” as “fissionable trousers.” I hope there is an embargo against shipping nuclear pants to the Worker’s paradise.


49 posted on 12/28/2010 1:03:38 PM PST by Ohio Hermit
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To: elpadre

yes they collect it with Honey Wagons drawn by an OX. It is collected in Honey pots in the village. An old Korean Warrior said he fell into one while fleeing from the MP’s who were raiding the Ladies of the evening. He escaped smelly but safe. The Army uses Hydroponic farms. Or they say they do.


50 posted on 12/28/2010 1:10:33 PM PST by barb-tex (What else did you expect from the likes of 0? BTW, What ever happened to Rhodesia?, Oh, yes, Zimbabw)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Yonhap news agency reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertilizer in North Korea.”

I forgot that in the 1960s in South Korea “honey buckets” - human waste collected from local houses and establishments, during the night - were still a source of fertilizer for farms and gardens in poor villages.

I had forgotten that, and when I read the quote above I first thought that maybe poor North Koreans were buying the “human excrement” for fuel.

The biggest problem, even then in the 1960s in South Korea, was not directly from the use of human excrement for fertilizer, but because of HOW it was used it could easily become a contaminate of the local drinking-water supply; because most local drinking water drew directly from the local wells and the local water table and not filtered and monitored water systems.

In other words, in most conditions that human excrement is used for fertilizer, the “sewer system” is released directly into drinking water supply from the run off from the farms.


51 posted on 12/28/2010 1:36:21 PM PST by Wuli
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To: The Comedian

now that’s funny right there


52 posted on 12/28/2010 1:37:51 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: GOPsterinMA

see my post on this thread, number 51


53 posted on 12/28/2010 1:43:24 PM PST by Wuli
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To: MrB

That picture has always intrigued me. Is it real? Frankly it doesn’t make China look so hot, either, compared with South Korea, which is lit up like a Christmas tree.


54 posted on 12/28/2010 3:10:40 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: Wuli
Bingo!

The water must have been/still is massively contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria. Y U C K ! ! !

55 posted on 12/28/2010 3:54:25 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: Sub-Driver

56 posted on 12/28/2010 6:36:17 PM PST by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Skinny jeans, adult films, human excrement

Which of these doesn't belong?

57 posted on 12/28/2010 6:45:29 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: itsahoot
"No it was called a Police Action, and you can thank Harry @ss Truman for the defeat and loss of lives. He also gets credit for the survival of Mao."

Thanks, but I'll stick with "Korean War" - euphemisms and distinctions without difference just don't appeal to me. I'm aware there was no formal declaration of war.

I don't give Truman a pass over the outcome, but he didn't send 200,000 chinese troops into Korea, China did; so I still consider China to be ultimately responsible for the survival of the Norks, then and now.

58 posted on 12/28/2010 9:27:50 PM PST by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: boop

I have no reason to doubt it. The site had various pictures of the world at night from satellites.

No, China doesn’t look so hot because they really don’t care about the outlying areas having electricity, and even in the cities they have frequent outages. People queue up their chores that require electricity, wait for it to come on, and rush to get them done while it’s on.

One side note. In advanced countries like America, the lit areas are a proxy for population. Notice that west of the Mississippi, the population is MUCH less dense. And to a survivalist, when the SHTF, you don’t want to be in high population density areas of the country.


59 posted on 12/29/2010 6:03:56 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Flag_This
Thanks, but I'll stick with "Korean War" - euphemisms and distinctions without difference just don't appeal to me. I'm aware there was no formal declaration of war.

Right did you know it was fought as a UN Police Action? A declaration of War changes a lot of rules, Harry bought into this cr@p.

I don't give Truman a pass over the outcome, but he didn't send 200,000 chinese troops into Korea, China did;

Dougla MacCarthur, could have fixed it, but Harry was weak kneed. In fact Mac pulled of the impossible in spite of Harry's sad decision.

I saw a 13 part series of interviews with Harry after he moved back home, it was on a local station. He clearly feared Russia and possibly a Chinese Nuclear response, which they could not deliver. So I blame Harry for all of it including the rise of power by Stalin and Mao. At least to the point that he gave in to the demands of the Commie Roosevelt staffers that infected his administration.

60 posted on 12/29/2010 1:59:05 PM PST by itsahoot (We the people, allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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