{"id":322969,"date":"2026-02-20T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=322969"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:37:11","slug":"north-korean-police-resist-pressure-to-adopt-orphans-under-pro-natalist-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-police-resist-pressure-to-adopt-orphans-under-pro-natalist-law\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean police resist pressure to adopt orphans under pro-natalist law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">North Korean authorities in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, pressured local police officers late last month to adopt orphans under a pro-natalist law that grants benefits to families with three or more children, drawing sharp resistance from officers who say they cannot afford to take in additional children on their meager wages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Although the Law on Preferential Treatment for Multi-Child Families, adopted in August of last year, aims to promote childbirth by legally enshrining benefits for multi-child households, people quietly complain that the state really intends to dump responsibility for orphans onto private individuals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The police department of one district of Hamhung gathered its officers late last month and openly discussed orphaned children, according to a Daily NK source in South Hamgyong province who requested anonymity for security reasons. The head of the department&#8217;s political department said at the meeting that police &#8220;should take the lead in resolving the orphan issue, a matter of concern for the party,&#8221; and that &#8220;people who take in orphans also receive benefits under the Law on Preferential Treatment for Multi-Child Families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The law designates families with three or more children, whether biological or adopted, as multi-child families and provides them with preferential benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">In December, authorities in Hamhung conducted indoctrination sessions to encourage childbirth and promote the law, focusing mostly on Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea (SWAK) organizations in the city. SWAK members complained that authorities &#8220;were invoking the law on multi-child families because they couldn&#8217;t outright tell us to take in orphans and raise them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>Officers and their families push back<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The police officers gave the latest effort an equally chilly reception. About the political department chief&#8217;s open discussion of adoption, officers said it was &#8220;nonsense for them to tell us to adopt children when we are barely getting by on our wages,&#8221; adding that adoption &#8220;is something a couple decides carefully, and tensions will inevitably arise if the state pressures them to adopt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Some officers voiced their frustration openly. &#8220;One cop asked why frontline officers had to assume responsibility for orphans, protesting that it was absolute nonsense for the state to ask officers to rescue orphans when it couldn&#8217;t even pay our wages,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The officers&#8217; wives were also vigorously opposed. 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