North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jon Un cried as he urged women to help reverse his country's falling birth rate, calling them to raise their children as communists.

During an event dedicated to mothers, Kim Jong Un called for efforts to tackle North Korea's falling birth rates, describing the challenge as 'everyone's housekeeping duty'.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wipes tears and looks emotional in a video from a recent event where he called for efforts to tackle the country's falling birth rates and urged women to have more children.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was pictured wiping tears with a white handkerchief while telling thousands of women in the capital Pyongyang to have more children