The North Korean system uses the bodies of political prisoners to fertilize farm crops for prison guards, according to a former prisoner.
The prisoner, who used a pseudonym, "Kim Il Sun," revealed this horrific practice after she survived from the Kishon concentration camp, located in north Pyongyang.
Prison guards believe that this method has been successful and have suggested that it be deployed in the mountainous lands around the prison, which are difficult to plant, according to Kim Il Soon.
Sun's testimony comes at a time when North Korean President Kim Jong-un is facing condemnation as he continues missile tests, while the world is preoccupied with the Corona epidemic.
"The land there is completely fertile," Sun said. "And the cultivation there is successful because the bodies buried there act as a natural fertilizer." Some guards said that burial bodies should be distributed over the entire region, with the aim of spreading the fertilizer throughout.
And she continued: "They were burying the bodies in the mountains until I saw a child who was in the area, the hand of one of the bodies standing on the ground that was not completely buried."
Sun revealed the matter to a human rights commission after her escape to South Korea. And reinforced her account that the commission noted that there was no testimony talking about cremation in prison, nor did she see any crematoriums in place in the satellite image.