On Monday, state media reported Mr Kim said that it is a duty of women to halt the fall of birth rate numbers in the country, describing the challenge as “everyone’s housekeeping”.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for women to have more children in a bid to tackle falling birth rates and to “strengthen national power” in the country.
Mr Kim made his latest appeal on Sunday – during the country’s first National Mothers’ meeting of its kind in 11 years.
He said: “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”.
On Monday, state media reported Mr Kim described the challenge as “everyone’s housekeeping”.
According to South Korea’s government statistics agency, the average number of babies expected to be born to a woman over her lifetime in North Korea, was 1.79 in 2022, down from 1.88 in 2014.
Limited data of North Korea’s population makes it extremely difficult to pinpoint statistics, but South Korea’s government has said the North’s fertility rate has declined steadily for the past 10 years.
In the 1970-and 1980s North Korea implemented birth control programmes to slow a post-war growth in population.
And following a famine in the mid-1990s that was estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people, the country’s fertility rate suffered a major decline, according to a report published in August from Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute.
