SEOUL, May 8 — North Korea’s former propaganda chief, credited with masterminding the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty, has died, state media said today,...
North Korea ’s former propaganda chief, credited with masterminding the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty, has died, state media said today, with leader Kim Jong-un attending his funeral. — AFP pic/KCNA via KNSSEOUL, May 8 — North Korea ’s former propaganda chief, credited with masterminding the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty, has died, state media said today, with leader Kim Jong-un attending his funeral.
Kim Jong-un visited the funeral hall early Wednesday morning, paid silent tribute and looked around the bier with “bitter grief over the loss of a veteran revolutionary who had remained boundlessly loyal” to the regime, KCNA said.Kim Ki-nam is best known for having led North Korea’s key department for propaganda. In the 1970s, he was in charge of Pyongyang’s official mouthpiece, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, according to the North.
In 2015, images in state media showed the late official, in his 80s at the time, taking notes diligently in front of Kim Jong-un, around 50 years his junior.His role as the regime’s chief propagandist was eventually passed on to Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister, Kim Yo-jong, in the late 2010s. Her arrival at the propaganda department took place in 2018, according to Seoul’s unification ministry.
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