SEOUL: Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped construct persona cults across the nation’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94, the North’s state media mentioned.
North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company mentioned the nation’s present chief, Kim Jong Un, visited the physique of Kim Ki Nam at a funeral corridor within the capital, Pyongyang, early Wednesday and expressed condolences to members of the family.The company mentioned Kim Jong Un will lead the state funeral committee for Kim Ki Nam, who can be buried on Thursday.
KCNA mentioned Kim Ki Nam, a former secretary of the ruling Staff’ Social gathering‘s central committee, “devoted his all to the sacred battle for defending and strengthening the ideological purity of our revolution and firmly guaranteeing the regular victory of the socialist trigger.” The company mentioned he died Tuesday after being handled for age-related sicknesses and a number of organ dysfunctions for the previous yr.
Kim Ki Nam’s position because the nation’s chief propagandist earned him notoriety in South Korea, the place media nicknamed him the “North Korean Goebbels,” after Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
He additionally led the delegation to South Korea in 2009 that attended the funeral of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who had pursued engagement with the North and held a summit with former North Korean chief Kim Jong Il, the daddy of the present ruler.
Kim Ki Nam was one of many seven senior officers who joined Kim Jong Un in accompanying the hearse of the late chief Kim Jong Il following his loss of life in 2011.
Kim Ki Nam was a professor at Kim Il Sung College and the chief editorial author of the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper earlier than taking management roles within the ruling Employee’s Social gathering’s propaganda departments beginning within the Nineteen Eighties.
North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company mentioned the nation’s present chief, Kim Jong Un, visited the physique of Kim Ki Nam at a funeral corridor within the capital, Pyongyang, early Wednesday and expressed condolences to members of the family.The company mentioned Kim Jong Un will lead the state funeral committee for Kim Ki Nam, who can be buried on Thursday.
KCNA mentioned Kim Ki Nam, a former secretary of the ruling Staff’ Social gathering‘s central committee, “devoted his all to the sacred battle for defending and strengthening the ideological purity of our revolution and firmly guaranteeing the regular victory of the socialist trigger.” The company mentioned he died Tuesday after being handled for age-related sicknesses and a number of organ dysfunctions for the previous yr.
Kim Ki Nam’s position because the nation’s chief propagandist earned him notoriety in South Korea, the place media nicknamed him the “North Korean Goebbels,” after Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
He additionally led the delegation to South Korea in 2009 that attended the funeral of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who had pursued engagement with the North and held a summit with former North Korean chief Kim Jong Il, the daddy of the present ruler.
Kim Ki Nam was one of many seven senior officers who joined Kim Jong Un in accompanying the hearse of the late chief Kim Jong Il following his loss of life in 2011.
Kim Ki Nam was a professor at Kim Il Sung College and the chief editorial author of the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper earlier than taking management roles within the ruling Employee’s Social gathering’s propaganda departments beginning within the Nineteen Eighties.
