North Korean soldiers are experience hare-ied by a recent ask for by army authorities to start breeding a lot more rabbits — 15 of them to be precise, according to a new report.

The directive from the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces arrived down June 7 buying troopers and their people to raise more bunnies to try to eat, together with some that are at minimum 7.7 pounds, Daily NK documented.

The military’s politiburo, the Standard Political Bureau, is billing the new buy as a way to boost the country’s meat supply in an economical way — as element of Kim Jong Un’s order to increase more grass-having animals.

An “evaluation” of the soldiers’ breeding attempts will be built right before the conclusion of August.

The request is believed to incorporate additional tension to troopers, who began summer season armed forces drills on July 1, the publication said. They’ll have to discover bigger cages and additional food stuff for their burgeoning nest, on best of preparing for the drills.

“Soldiers carry out their responsibilities and instruction in the morning, then have to head into the hills to pick acacia leaves and clover for an hour right before they can rest,” a source explained to Each day NK.

The resource claimed it was the initial time troopers acquired precise orders on how many bunnies to elevate.

“The authorities appear to be to be subtly hinting that troopers will have to obtain issues to eat since they will not get considerably foodstuff from the governing administration,” the resource reported.