North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently made an emotional plea to women, urging them to have more children to address the country’s declining birth rate.
He emphasized the duty of preventing this decline and instilling communist values in children.
The event, the first National Mothers’ Meeting in 11 years, was held amid concerns about the country’s falling fertility rate. (Trending: Trump Announces Major Promise For 2024)
“Preventing a decline in birth rates and good childcare are all of our housekeeping duties we need to handle while working with mothers,” said Kim.
“These tasks,” he continued, “include bringing up their children so that they will steadfastly carry forward our revolution, eliminating the recently-increasing non-socialist practices, promoting family harmony and social unity, establishing a sound way of cultural and moral life, making the communist virtues and traits of helping and leading one another forward prevail over our society, stopping the declining birth rate, and taking good care of children and educating them effectively.”
“These belong to our common family affairs, which we need to deal with by joining hands with our mothers,” he added.
North Korea’s population trends are challenging to assess due to limited statistics, but the fertility rate has steadily declined, posing economic and labor force challenges.
The country has introduced benefits for families with three or more children, and experts believe that Kim’s public appearances with his daughter are part of efforts to encourage families.
Despite these concerns, North Korea’s fertility rate remains higher than some of its neighbors.
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