North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged the country’s women to have more children as part of a strategy to address declining birth rates and “strengthen national power”.
Accurate statistics on North Korea’s population are difficult to obtain due to limited data but the South Korean government has reported a consistent decline in the DPRK’s fertility rate over the last decade.
The North Korean state has previously implemented birth control programmes in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jong-Un told a gathering of North Korea ‘s first ‘National Mothers’ Meeting’ in 11 years: “Stopping the decline in birth rates and providing good childcare and education are all our family affairs that we should solve together with our mothers”.
Ahn Kyung-su, the founder of DPRKHealth.org, a website dedicated to North Korean health issues, stated that many families in the country choose not to have more than one child due to factors such as financial considerations, school availability, and job opportunities.
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According to North Korean state media, the country has started offering incentives to families with three or more children.
These include favourable provisions such as free housing, government subsidies, free food, medicine and household goods, as well as educational benefits for children.
Meanwhile, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has urged women in the country to consider having up to eight children, aiming to establish large families as a societal norm.
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The birth rate in Russia has witnessed a decline since the 1990s, exacerbated by the Ukraine war, which has resulted in over 300,000 casualties, according to a report from The Independent.
Putin declared in a recent speech that increasing the nation’s population will be a primary objective for the coming decades.
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