Kim Ki-nam was known as ‘the North Korean Goebbels’ in the South due to his role as head of propaganda department
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pays tribute to former propaganda chief Kim Ki Nam, who has died aged 94, at a funeral hall in Pyongyang.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pays tribute to former propaganda chief Kim Ki Nam, who has died aged 94, at a funeral hall in Pyongyang.Kim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and cemented their political legitimacy, has died, official media have said.
The ruling Kim family are revered in the North as the “Paektu bloodline”, named after the country’s highest mountain and supposed birthplace of the late leader Kim Jong-il.In the 1970s, Kim Ki-nam was in charge of Pyongyang’s official mouthpiece, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, KCNA said. He became head of the North’s propaganda department in 1985, according to South Korean government data. He retired in 2017 and Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, took over.
“It is safe to say that the propaganda and agitation strategies of the Kim dynasty all came from Kim Ki-nam’s mind,” Ahn Chan-il, a defector turned researcher who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, told AFP. Kim Ki-nam exerted tremendous influence on policy and personnel and was a key architect of the ruling Workers’ party’s political foundation, according to North Korea expert Michael Madden at the Stimson Center.
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