"North Koreans Struggle to Fulfill Daily Human Manure Quotas"

The Kim clan seem to have something of a fetish with human waste. Kim Jong-Il had his army draw up plans to bombard the south with poo-balloons while junior has caused parasitic disease outbreaks  using the stuff as fertilizer.
On the other hand San Francisco may have just found a solution for one of their nasty-assty problems.

From Radio Free Asia:

The North Korean government has decreed that every able-bodied citizen must turn in 100 kg (220 lbs) of human manure a day to be used for fertilizer, to bolster the agricultural sector.

Leader Kim Jong Un announced in his New Year’s address that the agricultural front would be the primary instrument for economic reconstruction.

“After Kim Jong Un’s [speech], the entire population has been mobilized to produce manure as the first major task of the year,” a source in North Hamgyong province told RFA’s Korean Service on Sunday.

“The authorities in each local region task factories, institutions and citizens groups with assigning production quotas to each individual,” the source said.

“They are demanding that each person produce 100kg of human feces per day, or about 3 tons per month,” said the source.

“But how on earth can it be possible for one person to make 3 tons of human feces and deliver it?”
While the collection of feces is a yearly task, high quotas this year are driving many to find interesting ways to collect human feces in the bitter cold, or to find ways to get out of their quota.

Some however, are critical of the government, saying the high quotas amount to a shakedown of the people.

“If you cannot fill the quota, you have to supply 300kg of compost or livestock manure instead,” the source added....MORE

Also at Daily NK:

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