North Koreans fight over faeces, raid each other’s toilets after Kim Jong Un demands 500kg of human waste from every adult for use as fertiliser

DAILY MAIL

North Koreans have been reduced to stealing each others’ faeces after Kim Jong-Un demanded an impossibly high quota of human waste from his people to use as fertiliser.The Kim regime forces citizens to horde faeces every January, hoping to boost crop yields despite a chronic national shortage of compost.

This year’s quota is ‘impossibly high’, according to Radio Free Asia – forcing North Koreans to steal or buy poo from each other, or face punishment. Each adult must contribute 500kg of human waste, and each schoolkid 200kg. 

This is way over the 145kg of faeces the average person produces in a year, according to Live Science. 
And now the burden is causing brawls, with North Koreans coming to blows trying to defend their waste from desperate neighbours. 

One fight in Unsan County, to the north of the capital, left two men hospitalised, a local source told RFA.
He said: ‘A factory worker was trying to steal faeces from an outhouse next to the other guy’s home.

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