Kim Jong Un cries urging North Korean women to increase child birth

In an emotionally charged address, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un implored the women of his country to have more children and raise them as communists, visibly moved to tears during his speech. (Photo: TNN)

During the Fifth National Conference of Mothers in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un talked about the importance of reversing the country's declining birth rates. He appealed the women of his country to have more children and raise them as communists. (Photo: AFP)

Kim Jong Un said women must halt a fall in the country's births to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up the call for the people to have more children. (Photo: PTI)

While wiping away tears with a handkerchief he said, "...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." (Photo: TNN)

He urged, "Preventing a decline in birth rates and good childcare are all of our housekeeping duties we need to handle while working with mothers." (Photo: Reuters)

"All mothers should fulfill their responsibility and duty assumed before society and families with confidence in and optimism about the prospects of our socialist construction and a changed ideal society to come in the near future," he said. (Photo: Reuters)

North Korean state media reported this year that the government has introduced benefits for families with three or more children. These incentives include free housing, state subsidies, complimentary food, medicine, household goods, and educational advantages for children. (Photo: AP)

The country's fertility rate saw a significant drop following a famine in the mid-1990s, which reportedly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, as noted by the Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute in a report. (Photo: Reuters)