North Korea Is Using Bodies of Dead Prisoners As Fertilser To Grow Crops For Guards, Claims Former Captive

The former prisoner's testimony comes at a time when the country has stepped up its missile tests in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic

In a shocking claim, a former captive who was lodged in a Pyongyang jail, said that North Korea uses the bodies of political prisoners as fertiliser to grow crops for the facility’s guards. The vegetables grown are then given to the camp guards and their families, which includes cabbages, radishes and spinach.

The former prisoner’s testimony comes at a time when the country has stepped up its missile tests in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, as per a Daily Mail report.

Revealing what happens inside the jails, she said, ”The lands are very fertilised, and farming is successful there because the buried human bodies serve as natural fertilizers. Some guards said that they should bury the bodies evenly throughout the land so that it will fertilize the entire area.  They buried people in the mountains. One time, a kid was peeing in the mountains and saw an arm sticking out because they forgot to cover it properly.”

The prisoner, who goes by the pseudonym Kim Il-soon, submitted her statements to The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), after her escape.

After this revelation, Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of HRNK condemned North Korea’s actions and said that there was no respite from the crimes of the Kim regime, even while the entire world is in the midst of a pandemic.

”As the world is struggling to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, the Kim Jong-un regime continues to commit crimes against humanity, brutalising and victimising its own people,” he said.