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North Korea loves triplets!

June 8, 2015
The North Korean government is trying to raise the birth rate, which plunged after the famine in the 1990s. (Korea Times file)

The North Korean government is trying to raise the birth rate, which plunged after the famine in the 1990s. (Korea Times file)

North Korea, which reportedly is experiencing a low birth-rate, is paying particular attention to triplets, according to the authoritarian regime’s Rodong Sinmun.

In an article on Monday, the paper introduced a Pyongyang family with triplets.

The family lives in a house provided by the government as a congratulatory gift for the triplets’ birth three years ago. Local officials even pasted the wallpaper.

The mother was quoted as saying the house is always filled with guests wanting to see the triplets.

In the North, women confirmed to be expecting triplets are taken to Pyongyang’s largest maternal clinic. The government pays child-rearing costs until the triplets are four years old.

The government is trying to raise the birth rate, which plunged after the famine in the 1990s.