North Korea’s leader burst into tears as he urged women to have more children.
Kim Jong-Un said it was their duty to halt the country’s declining birth rate in order to strengthen national power, according to the country’s state-run media.
In what appeared to be a stage show of emotion, the North Korean dictator wiped his eyes with a white handkerchief as he delivered a speech at a National Mothers Meeting in the capital Pyongyang on Sunday (December 3).
Women in the audience were seemingly moved to tears by their leader’s weeping over his isolated country’s falling number of births.
While getting a detailed reading of North Korea’s population trends is extremely difficult due to the limited statistics it releases, South Korea assesses that the North’s fertility rate has declined steadily for the past 10 years.
That is a concerning development for a country which depends on mobilising labour to help keep its broken, heavily sanctioned economy from crashing.
