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The North Korean leader calls for women to have more children to halt a fall in the birthrate (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is North Korea. Why would they turn women into cattle, the consequence of disobedience is death and/or labor camp for them and any family anyway. Also I’m sure a significant part of the population is indoctrinated enough to just comply.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

The population is not dumb, people are just trying to make the best out of the situation. Like when they had some reporters go to a village, where women were sewing some clothes:

Reporter: "Do you like the life in the country?"
Woman (in subtitles): "We do what we can"
Guide-translator: "We do the best for our nation!"

If they could, they might revolt, but NK is really well structured to prevent that... and even if they run away to the South, they find themselves in a modern country with no hireable skills.