North Korean women face widespread discrimination in the country’s deeply patriarchal society.
Photo: kim won jin/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesSEOUL— Kim Jong Un has a new mission for North Korean women: Have more babies.
Kim acknowledged the impoverished nation’s plunging birthrate for the first time publicly at a rare National Conference of Mothers.
Wiping away tears, the 39-year-old dictator, who is a father of three, described mothers as revolutionaries who were on the front lines of rooting out antisocialist behavior and helping the nation prosper.
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