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N. Korea: KIM JONG UN MAY HAVE CAUSED A PARASITIC WORM EPIDEMIC IN NORTH KOREA BY MAKING FARMERS...
Newsweek ^
| 11/17/17
| CALLUM PATON
Posted on 11/18/2017 6:14:33 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
KIM JONG UN MAY HAVE CAUSED A PARASITIC WORM EPIDEMIC IN NORTH KOREA BY MAKING FARMERS SPREAD HUMAN FAECES ON THEIR CROPS
The prevalence of parasitic worms causing health problems in North Korea may be the result of a personal intervention by Kim Jong Un, who urged farmers to spread human excrement on their fields to fertilize crops.
The hermit nations leader issued an instruction to farmers in 2014 telling them to use human faeces with animal waste and organic compost on their fields. With a lack of livestock to provide animal fertilizer, agriculturists poured the human excrement, also known as night soil, on their fields.
Kims pronouncement further precipitated the falsehood in North Korea that human waste was the best fertilizer for crops despite the dangerous parasites and worms found within in it, Reuters reported.
The nutrition and widespread health problems that blight North Korea have been highlighted by one North Korean soldier who has recently defected to the south. The army sergeant was found to have dozens of flesh colored parasites in his digestive tract, one of which measured 10.6 inches in length.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agricultural; epidemic; farming; fertilizer; kimjongun; nkfarming; nkorea; parasites
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It's not the first time N. Korean leader's stupid directive caused a disaster. His grandfather Kim Il-sung issued a directive to strip vegetation off mountain slope and turn it into fields, in order to solve chronic food shortage. Instead of creating carefully managed terraced field, their field looked like a ski slope making it easy for rainwater to pour down slope and ruin much of field on the flat land during rainy season. This resulted in the massive famine in 90's. Although Kim Jong-un's directive may not be as catastrophic as his grandfather's, it is still another big disaster.
N. Korea had been using human feces for their farming, but N. Korean regime apparently pushed it to extreme, requiring each person to provide 1 ton of manure using human feces.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; Grampa Dave; ...
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:14:56 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
See, see! Trump's visit to Japan and SK is behind this!
IIIIMMMPPPPEEEEEAAAACCCHHHHHH!
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:15:46 PM PST
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wow, what a crappy thing to do.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:18:06 PM PST
by
Pining_4_TX
(For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
To: TigerLikesRooster
No hace caca en la espinaca...!!!!
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:18:15 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Always said that Lil Un was full of crap. This proves it. Unfortunately he is making his whole country, what is left of it, into one gigantic shit pile of human misery and death.
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
How do you produce feces when there’s not enough to eat?
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:23:28 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
How do you produce feces when there’s not enough to eat?
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:23:55 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Thank God Trump won; Hillary probably would’ve made a deal with FatBoi to import that crap.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Dear God. As if they don’t have enough trouble with that Fat Idiot in charge.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:24:16 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: TigerLikesRooster
IIRC, the ROK used human feces on the crops during my time there for Uncle Sam in 1992. We were told not to eat vegetables from the farms because of the use of human waste as fertilizer. It was almost a guarantee that you’d get really sick.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:24:57 PM PST
by
ltc8k6
To: DIRTYSECRET
By eating sufficient tree bark???
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:27:43 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: ltc8k6
The first thing S. Korean government did when they started their industrialization drive was to build many chemical fertilizer plants. Use of human feces dropped dramatically, but the practice probably went on some part of country for a while.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:28:45 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: ltc8k6
South Korea huh? Wow. But it gave the kimchee a certain je ne sais quoi.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:29:59 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: ltc8k6
Explains why kimchi tastes like sh_t.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:30:43 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
To: TigerLikesRooster
One might have thought they’d at least use processed sewage to avert the issues. A la Milorganite.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:31:53 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
You can be sure that KJU isn’t eating the food produced from human poop.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:32:15 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong Un, who urged farmers to spread human excrement on their fields to fertilize crops. It's, like......Organic!.....man.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:34:43 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(RATs, RINOs...same thing)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Big Potty Boom-Boom
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:36:11 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: ltc8k6
Many of Kim Jong FattyDopeys troopers are prob already fighting the enemy within.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:36:19 PM PST
by
gasport
(Smash the Beast - starvation takes too long)
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