Posted 12/5/2023, 11:01:04 PM
Kim Urges North Korean Women to Have More Children Amid Falling Birth Rates
- Kim Jong Un gave an emotional speech urging North Korean women to have more children to prevent declining birth rates
- He called raising children to be communists and revolutionaries a "housekeeping duty" for mothers
- The UN estimates North Korea's fertility rate is currently 1.8 births per woman, down from previous decades
- Kim said mothers have a mission to raise children as "pillars of socialist and communist construction"
- Observers note North Korea's demographic changes mirror those in richer nations despite being a very poor country