End of dictatorship, has Kim Jong Un become soft hearted? Tears were shed profusely in front of the women of North Korea, know how such a change came in the dictator

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was seen wiping away tears at an event on Sunday where he called for efforts to tackle the country’s falling birth rate. A video of him getting emotional while appealing to women in the country to have more children has gone viral. Kim Jong Un made the remarks while speaking at the National Mothers’ Meeting in Pyongyang. “Preventing the decline in birth rates and taking good care of children are all our housekeeping responsibilities that we have to handle while working with mothers,” she was quoted as saying by news agency Reuters.

The North Korean leader said it is women’s duty to stop the decline in the country’s birth rate in order to strengthen national power. He thanked mothers for their role in strengthening national power and said, “I also always think of mothers when I have difficulty dealing with the work of the Party and the state.”

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that by 2023, the fertility rate, or the average number of children born to a woman, in North Korea will be 1.79, down from 1.88 in 2014. The decline is still slow compared to South Korea. Whose fertility rate was 0.78 in 2022, which was 1.20 in 2014.

An Associated Press report said North Korea implemented a birth control program in the 1970s–80s to slow population growth after the war. Additionally, the country’s fertility rate fell sharply after a famine in the mid-1990s that it estimated killed hundreds of thousands of people, Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute said in a report in August.

According to North Korean state media reports this year, the country has introduced a set of benefits for families with three or more children, including preferential free housing arrangements, state subsidies, free food, medicine and household goods, and educational facilities for children. Are included.

NEW: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un starts crying as he begs North Koreans to have more babies.

North Korean birth rates are about to skyrocket 📈

The incident happened at the National Mothers Meeting hosted by the dictator who started dabbing his eyes in an effort to get… pic.twitter.com/F8xg0dZ05J

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