North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sobbed in front of thousands of women as he urged them to have more children, claiming it was their responsibility to reverse the country’s decreasing birth rate.
Kim Jong Un is pictured drying his eyes with a handkerchief while addressing thousands of ladies at Pyongyang’s National Mothers’ Meeting on Sunday, December 3.
“Preventing a decline in birth rates and good childcare are all of our housekeeping duties we need to handle while working with mothers,” Kim said at the event, while also urging them to instil the values of his communist party in their children.
Women clad in traditional multi-coloured robes who attended the event wept alongside their leader.
The event, the first National Mothers’ Meeting in 11 years, was organised in response to a drop in the isolationist state’s birth rate, which has clearly alarmed top DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) authorities.
Kim addressed the crowd as “Dear Mothers,” saying, “We are confronted with a host of social tasks that our mothers should join to tackle”.
“These tasks,” he said, “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.
He went on to remark that ‘in view of our moms’ position and function in their homes and society,’ his administration regarded the meeting of mothers as ‘no less essential than a party congress or a plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.’
According to sources, North Korea’s latest census, conducted in 2008, had a population of 24 million people. According to current estimates, the country has a population of 25.7 million people.
