Kim Ki Nam died on Tuesday due to old age and 'multiple organ dysfunction', having been treated at a hospital since 2022, the country's official Korean Central News Agency said. He was 94
North Korea 's former propaganda chief who masterminded the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty has died, state media said Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un photographed bowing at his funeral.
Nam was routinely referred to as the Joseph Goebbels of North Korea, in reference to the Nazi propagandist-in-chief, so key was his work in entrenching the Kim family in power. He is seen as the driving force behind the propaganda masterminding the cult of the Kim family dynasty, and Pyongyang's state media on Wednesday described him as 'a veteran of our Party and the revolution, a prestigious theoretician and a prominent political activist'.
In 2015, images in state media showed the late official Kim Ki Nam, in his 80s at the time, taking notes diligently in front of Kim Jong Un, more than 50 years his junior. Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, took up Kim Ki Nam's mantle as chief propagandist some seven years ago
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