North Korea’s former master of propaganda operations, Kim Ki Nam, died at the age of 94.
The state media of Pyongyang confirmed the news of a propagandist death on Wednesday, May 8.
According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the former secretary of the Central Committee of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party (WPK) died on Tuesday due to old age and multiple organ dysfunction.
KCNA informed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended Kim Ki Nam‘s funeral early on Wednesday to pay tribute ‘with bitter grief over the loss of a veteran revolutionary who had remained boundlessly loyal’ to the country until the very end.
The news agency further added, “He made contributions to the sacred struggle for the development of the WPK, modelling the revolutionary ranks on the monolithic ideology and the victorious advance of the socialist cause.”
Ki Nam served all three generations of North Korean leaders and is attributed with masterminding the ‘cult of the Kim family dynasty.’
The state media also described him as ‘a veteran of our party (WPK) and the revolution, a prestigious theoretician and a prominent political activist.’
Ki Nam became the head of North Korea’s propaganda department in 1985 and retired in 2017 after the Supreme Leader’s sister, Kin Yo Jong, took over.
Kim Jong Un will lead the state funeral committee for Ki Nam, who will be buried on Thursday.
