Kim Jong Un Cries As He Pleads With North Korean Women To Have More Children

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looked emotional as he wiped his tears in a new video where he asked his country's women to give birth to more children
• According to the United Nations Population Fund, the average number of children being born to a woman in North Korea stood at 1.8 in 2023 amid an extended fall in recent years
• The supreme leader counselled North Korean women to raise their children as communists while urging them to join the fight against the child decline rate

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is asking women in his country to join him in the fight against the child decline rate his country is currently experiencing.

Why Kim Jong Un wants women to have more kids

From viral videos doing rounds on the internet, the supreme leader could be seen getting emotional and wiping off his tears while begging women in his country to get more children.

Watch the video below:

According to the Independent publication, Jong Un was at an event for mothers in Pyongyang where he called for efforts to tackle the country's falling birth rates and urged women to be open to having more than one child.

"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.

He also thanked mothers for their role in strengthening national power. In his words:

"I too, always think about mothers when I have a hard time dealing with the party and the state's work."

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that as of 2023, the fertility rate, or the average number of children being born to a woman, stood at 1.8 in North Korea, amid an extended fall in the rate during recent decades.

The fertility rate remains higher than in some of North Korea's neighbours, which have been grappling with a similar downward trend.

Kim bans leather coats to avoid being copied

Elsewhere, North Korea's Supreme Leader in 2021 ensured no one would copy his signature look by introducing extreme measures.

Jong Un imposed a total ban on leather coats to prevent people from emulating him in an effort to keep his style.

Police in his country roamed the streets seizing leather coats from citizens and retailers in the clampdown to protect the leader's fashion style.