Nuclear family: Kim Jong Un breaks down in tears telling North Korean women to have more children
Peter Cordi
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A tearful Kim Jong Un implored North Korean women to have more children and raise them as “communists” as the North Korean leader addressed thousands of women in Pyongyang on Sunday.
Kim spoke at a National Mothers Meeting, in which he described the “housekeeping duties” shouldered by women to prevent a “decline in birthrates” and to ensure “good child care.”
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Kim said instilling “socialist values” into children is a North Korean woman’s “primary revolutionary task.”
He said, “Unless a mother becomes a communist, it is impossible for her to bring up her sons and daughters as communists and transform the members of her family into revolutionaries.”
Kim joins Russian President Vladimir Putin in the call for the women of their countries to have more babies. Last week, Putin called to “revive” the tradition of having “seven and eight children” to combat Russia’s falling population.
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While it is nearly impossible to get up-to-date information on North Korea’s population trends from its official sources due to limited disclosure of such statistics, estimates show the communist country’s population has risen just by under 2 million since 2008.
The South Korean government assesses that the birthrate in North Korea has declined over the last decade, sitting at 1.79 children per woman as of 2022 compared to 1.88 in 2014.