North Korea's former propaganda chief Kim Ki
This photo, released by the Korean Central News Agency, May 8, shows the funeral hall of Kim Ki-nam, former secretary of the Central Committee of the North's ruling Workers' Party. Yonhap
Kim Ki-nam, the former secretary of the Central Committee of the North Korea's ruling Workers' Party and known as the country's propaganda master / Yonhap
Kim Ki-nam, known as the master of propaganda operations for North Korea's ruling Kim family, has died at 94, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday.
The former secretary of the Central Committee of the North's ruling Workers' Party (WPK) died Tuesday after suffering multiple organ failures since April 2022, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the funeral hall of the former official at 2 a.m. and will lead the state funeral committee for his burial, it added.
"Kim Jong-un paid silent tribute to Kim Ki-nam who made contributions to the sacred struggle for the development of the WPK, modeling the revolutionary ranks on the monolithic ideology and the victorious advance of the socialist cause," the KCNA said.
Kim Ki-nam, who spent decades overseeing propaganda operations in North Korea, was known to have stepped down from most official posts after he was excluded from a group of top officials sitting on the podium together with the leader in a party plenary meeting in October 2017.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, front row, attends the funeral of Kim Ki-nam, former secretary of the Central Committee of the North's ruling Workers' Party, May 8, in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency the same day. Yonhap
He briefly reappeared in state media photos in January 2019, where he was seen shaking hands with members of an art delegation heading to China. The KCNA mentioned Kim's name first among the officials present at the send-off ceremony at the train station in Pyongyang, even ahead of the leader's influential sister, Kim Yo-jong.
In 2009, Kim Ki-nam led a North Korean delegation organized to pay condolences to late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who held the first inter-Korean summit with then North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the late father of the current North Korean leader, in 2000. (Yonhap)
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