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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 nation’s 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.

Kim’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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.

1 posted on 11/18/2017 6:14:34 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; Grampa Dave; ...

P!


2 posted on 11/18/2017 6:14:56 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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See, see! Trump's visit to Japan and SK is behind this!

IIIIMMMPPPPEEEEEAAAACCCHHHHHH!

3 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.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wow, what a crappy thing to do.


4 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)
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“No hace caca en la espinaca...”!!!!


5 posted on 11/18/2017 6:18:15 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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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.


6 posted on 11/18/2017 6:18:46 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

How do you produce feces when there’s not enough to eat?


7 posted on 11/18/2017 6:23:28 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

How do you produce feces when there’s not enough to eat?


8 posted on 11/18/2017 6:23:55 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thank God Trump won; Hillary probably would’ve made a deal with FatBoi to import that crap.


9 posted on 11/18/2017 6:24:05 PM PST by LibWhacker
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Dear God. As if they don’t have enough trouble with that Fat Idiot in charge.


10 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 ......)
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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.


11 posted on 11/18/2017 6:24:57 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: DIRTYSECRET

By eating sufficient tree bark???


12 posted on 11/18/2017 6:27:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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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.
13 posted on 11/18/2017 6:28:45 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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South Korea huh? Wow. But it gave the kimchee a certain je ne sais quoi.


14 posted on 11/18/2017 6:29:59 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: ltc8k6

Explains why kimchi tastes like sh_t.


15 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)
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One might have thought they’d at least use processed sewage to avert the issues. A la Milorganite.


16 posted on 11/18/2017 6:31:53 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You can be sure that KJU isn’t eating the food produced from human poop.


17 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.)
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Kim Jong Un, who urged farmers to spread human excrement on their fields to fertilize crops.

It's, like......Organic!.....man.

18 posted on 11/18/2017 6:34:43 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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Big Potty Boom-Boom


19 posted on 11/18/2017 6:36:11 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: ltc8k6

Many of Kim Jong FattyDopey’s troopers are prob already fighting the enemy within.


20 posted on 11/18/2017 6:36:19 PM PST by gasport (Smash the Beast - starvation takes too long)
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