"Dear Mothers": North Korea's President Cries As He Begs Women To Have More Children, Video Emerges

• The video of North Korea's President, Kim Jong-un, begging mothers to give birth to more children has gone viral
• In the video which has now gone viral, Kim urged women to halt a decline in the birth rate to help strengthen the power of the nation
• Kim's request is a contrast to the birth control programmes introduced in the 1970s and 80s to slow down post-war population growth.

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North Korea's President, Kim Jong-un, could not hold back his tears as he begged mothers to give birth to more children to help strengthen the power of the nation.

As reported by Sky News, Kim said this while addressing the National Mothers' Meeting in Pyongyang.

In the now-trending video, the North Korean strong man was seen cleaning his tears with a handkerchief.

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Experts believe many new families do not have more than one child in North Korea because "they need lots of money to raise their kids".

"Dear Mothers, preventing a decline in birth rates and good childcare are all housekeeping duties we need to handle while working with mothers.

"These tasks 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."

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Kim's tearful appeal is in marked contrast to birth control programmes introduced by North Korea in the 1970s and 80s to slow post-war population growth.

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