- North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un implored women in the East Asian country to have more children and raise them as “communists,” and wept as he delivered the emotional address to an enraptured audience.
- “Stopping the decline in birthrates and providing good child care and education are all our family affairs that we should solve together with our mothers,” Un said, dabbing tears away with a white handkerchief.
- The United Nations Population Fund estimates that as of 2023, the fertility rate, or the average number of children being born to a woman in North Korea, stood at 1.8, amid an extended fall in the rate during recent decades.