DPRK encourages women to have children

DPRK encourages women to have children

DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un attends the 5th National Mothers' Convention, Pyongyang. On December 3, the DPRK held the National Mothers' Convention for the first time in 11 years, with more than 10,000 women from the DPRK's party, government, military and civil society attending. In his speech, DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un praised mothers as true heroines who play an important role in raising children, promoting family harmony and social unity, and called on DPRK women to take up the mission [of stopping the decline in the birth rate]. According to the United Nations Population Fund, North Korea's population will be about 26.2 million in 2023, and the female fertility rate will be 1.8, significantly higher than South Korea's fertility rate of 0.9.