A look behind N. Korea’s clumsy efforts to improve its birthrate
The state focuses on flawed ideology rather than investigating and formulating policies to address the root causes behind the growing number of women avoiding marriage and having children
At the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee in June 2021, Kim Jong Un announced that “creating a better environment for child rearing is of utmost policy importance and is the party’s greatest wish, regardless of the costs.” The 2021 meeting was the first time the country’s “child rearing issue” had been mentioned during a party plenary meeting.
Just two weeks after Kim’s remarks on the subject, province, county, and city-level organizations across the country began internally circulating materials titled, “The Central Committee Organization and Guidance Department’s Guidelines and Plans for Investigating the Ideology of Women Who Try to Avoid Marriage or Do Not Have Many Children After Marriage.”
North Korea is fascinatingly horrible. Lunatic bureaucrats with absolute power and a rigid ideology conduct their daily battles with human nature. Quite mad but fascinatingly mad.
3 comments:
Do not be too smug.
Look at UK. The reason that we need lots of virile gimmegrants is that our native breeders arn't. Confusion over gender. Saving up for first nest. Terrified of making advances on the opposite sex. Waiting for Mr Incredible to find them. Jolly good video games.
A country will certainly not attract immigrants if it is so appalling that it does not offer a better quality of life than their country of origin. We are certainly making moves in that direction, and ironically one reason for that is the immigration itself.
Doonhamer - all of that plus unrealistic expectations and a creeping inability to be sane. And those video games are jolly good and getting better all the time.
Sam - we are making irreversible moves in that direction, but people won't vote against it. Starmer is basing his appeal on more of the same in different packaging. It's astounding but that's all he needs to offer.
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