North Korean leader Kim Jong-un tearfully appeals to the country's women

While speaking at the ‘5th National Meeting of Mothers’ of North Korea, which took place in the capital Pyongyang, the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, was moved to tears.

In his speech, Kim urged mothers in his country to “have more children” because of the low North Korean birth rate, also making some recommendations to the thousands of women present.

“Stopping the decline in birth rates and providing good child care and education are all our family issues that we must resolve together with our mothers,” he said.

The dictator also asked that the women present “fulfill their duties” and “raise their children as communists”.

“All mothers must fulfill their assumed responsibility and duty towards society and families with confidence and optimism about the prospects of our socialist construction and an ideal society changed to get closer to the future”, he emphasized. “They have a heavy mission to educate their children to be pillars of socialist and communist construction and teachers of the future society.”, he declared.

The North Korean leader in his speech. (Image: Korean Central News Agency/Korean News Service via/Fox News/Reproduction)

Fewer children are being born in North Korea

According to data recently released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the average children born in North Korea has been 1.8 per family, the lowest in decades.

UNFPA makes it clear that this is an average that takes into account some years of observation in the Asian country. In 2022 alone, for example, it fell to a worrying 0.78.

Group of women present at the 5th National Meeting of Mothers in Pyongyang. (Image: Korean Central News Agency/Korean News Service via/Fox News/Reproduction)

According to experts, these alarming numbers only corroborate the fact that the population of South Korea North behaves like developed countries, despite the nation being one of the poorest and most closed in the world. planet.

Journalist Ahn Kyung-su, from the North Korean health-focused portal RPDCHEALTH.ORG, describes this situation better.

“Many families in North Korea also do not intend to have more than one child these days, as they know that they need a lot of money to raise their children, send them to school and help them get jobs,” he said.

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