North Korea needs your best efforts!

[Alex]

North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has demanded that every citizen turn over an impossible 100kg of human manure a day for fertiliser in an effort to boost the country's struggling agriculture, according to reports.

The hermit kingdom's leader first made agriculture the forefront of the economic recovery during his New Year's address.

This led to the mass mobilisation of the nation to fulfil the government's wishes and ensure the human manure quotas are met. If people don't meet their quota, they have to supply over 600 pounds of compost or livestock manure, according to Radio Free Asia.

"The entire population has been mobilised to produce manure as the first major task of the year," a source said. "The authorities in each local region task factories, institutions and citizens groups with assigning production quotas to each individual."

"They are demanding that each person produce 100kg of human faeces per day, or about three tons per month," the person added. "But how on earth can it be possible for one person to make three tons of human faeces and deliver it?"

Now, do we have anyone on this site who could help them out?

[claws]

This isn't from The Onion or is it?

[Alex]

Sadly no.

[Svengoolie 3]

I only see a couple reffs to this on the net and since the sites demand access to my data i won't give i can't really tell, but it is hard to  believe as it is impossible. Still, maybe he's trying to out insane trump...

[Alex]

One of the places that has reported it is one of the newspapers you regularly post things from Sven. http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8301874/kim-jong-un-north-korea-citizens-human-poo-fertilizer/

[Bushma]

100kg = 220lbs

No way that can be a personal daily requirement. Give. That it's from thesun.co.uk I'd say it's fake.

[Alex]

Didn't originate from The Sun, I just linked that up as one example. No idea if it is true or not (I more linked it up because I thought the idea was funny), but it does seem to be fairly widely reported now.

[Bushma]

Didn't originate from The Sun, I just linked that up as one example. No idea if it is true or not (I more linked it up because I thought the idea was funny), but it does seem to be fairly widely reported now.

Ok, sorry.  I just never know with North Korea, something could seem totally fake yet is completely true. 

[Alex]

I've kind of been watching the stories spread. It hasn't yet appeared on any of the news sources that I generally use to confirm a story, but they also tend to quite slow at updating especially on the weekend, as well as tending to concentrate more on more serious news issues. It sounds insane, but with some of the other things that N. Korea has done it just might be true. A leader who (amongst other things), uses flamethrowers, mortars, and anti-aircraft guns to execute his enemies isn't someone I'd describe as sane and stable in the first place.

[Svengoolie 3]

The tragedy is not one person in NK who has access to him cares enough about  the country to kill him.

[Trevor]

North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has demanded that every citizen turn over an impossible 100kg of human manure a day for fertiliser in an effort to boost the country's struggling agriculture, according to reports.

The hermit kingdom's leader first made agriculture the forefront of the economic recovery during his New Year's address.

This led to the mass mobilisation of the nation to fulfil the government's wishes and ensure the human manure quotas are met. If people don't meet their quota, they have to supply over 600 pounds of compost or livestock manure, according to Radio Free Asia.

"The entire population has been mobilised to produce manure as the first major task of the year," a source said. "The authorities in each local region task factories, institutions and citizens groups with assigning production quotas to each individual."

"They are demanding that each person produce 100kg of human faeces per day, or about three tons per month," the person added. "But how on earth can it be possible for one person to make three tons of human faeces and deliver it?"

Now, do we have anyone on this site who could help them out?

You called?