Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator, was visibly emotional as he pleaded with thousands of women to address the declining birth rate in the country. The leader, pictured drying his eyes, emphasized the importance of mothers' roles in preventing the decline and instilling communist values in their children. The event, Pyongyang’s National Mothers’ Meeting, aimed to tackle the alarming drop in birth rates in North Korea.
‘Preventing a decline in birth rates and good childcare is all of our housekeeping duties we need to handle while working with mothers,’ Kim said at the event, while also urging them to instill the values of his communist party in their children.
Women clad in traditional multi-colored robes who attended the event wept alongside their leader.
The gathering, the first National Mothers’ Meeting in 11 years, was organized in response to a drop in the isolationist state’s birth rate, which has alarmed top DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) authorities.
Addressing the audience as ‘Dear Mothers’, Kim told them ‘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.
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