North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un tearfully pleaded with his insular nation’s women to have more children to offset a declining birth rate.

The North Korean leader acknowledged the nation’s plunging birthrate for the first time publicly and promised preferential treatment for large families.

Normal North Koreans face strict rules to tackle western cultural influences - but these don't seem to apply to the dictator's daughter Kim Je Ae.

Kim's latest appeal for women to have more children was made Sunday during the country’s National Mothers Meeting, the first of its kind in 11 years.

A tearful Kim Jong Un implored North Korean women to have more children and raise them as “communists” as the North Korean leader addressed thousands of women in Pyongyang on Sunday.

Kim Jong-un has been filmed crying while appealing to North Korea’s women to have more children and raise them to love the authoritarian state.

Kim Jong-un has urged the mothers of North Korea to have “many children” to overcome the country’s declining birthrate and fight “alien” styles of speech and dress among the young. At a national mothers’ conference in Pyongyang,

In his seemingly highly-choreographed emotional plea, the authoritarian leader was seen dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief while addressing thousands of women in Pyongyang.