A now-trending video
capturing the moment North Korea’s President, Kim Jong-un, broke down in tears
as he pleaded with mothers to give birth to more children has emerged online.
The
video captured during a National Mothers’ Meeting in Pyongyang on Sunday, saw
Kim Jong-un burst addressing thousands of North Korean mothers, pleading with
them to have more babies to tackle the decline in the country’s birth rate, Sky
News reports.
“Dear
Mothers,” Kim Jong-un began, “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.”