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North Korea's New Senior Centers: Propaganda Amid Demographic Crisis

11/19/2025

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North Korea has established new senior centers to address a rising elderly population, about 12 percent aged 65 or older, concentrated in Pyongyang.
The centers offer therapeutic exercise and spa services.
Chosun Daily labeled them a propaganda project.
North Korea faces demographic pressures with a fertility rate of 1.8 births per woman.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has urged mothers to have more children and cracked down on black-market contraceptives.

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North Korea has established new senior centers to address a rising elderly population, about 12 percent aged 65 or older, concentrated in Pyongyang.
The centers offer therapeutic exercise and spa services.
Chosun Daily labeled them a propaganda project.
North Korea faces demographic pressures with a fertility rate of 1.8 births per woman.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has urged mothers to have more children and cracked down on black-market contraceptives.