‘These belong to our common family affairs, which we need to deal with by joining hands with our mothers,’ he added.He went on to say that ‘in view of our mothers’ position and role in their families and society’, his government viewed the meeting of mothers as ‘no less important than a party congress or a plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.’Getting a detailed idea of North Korea’s population trends is extremely difficult because of the limited statistics it discloses.