Kim Ki-nam is often called the “Goebbels of North Korea” (a reference to a Nazi propagandist) for his role in creating and executing totalitarian propaganda for three generations of the country’s Kim family. Died in North Korea at the age of 94. state media reported on Wednesday.
Kim Jong Un, who was not related to the North Korean dictator, reportedly died of multiple organ failure on Tuesday after a year-long illness. It’s unclear where he died.
Kim Jong-un’s tenure as leader of North Korea’s propaganda apparatus lasted until 2017 from the Kim Il-sung era when the country was founded at the end of World War II.
publicity It is the core of the Kim family’s Stalinist hold on power. Daily reports in all state-controlled news media in North Korea are filled with propaganda designed to keep the country’s 26 million people in thrall to the cult of personality surrounding the ruling family.
All North Koreans are required to wear badges bearing the portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the grandfather and father of current leader Kim Jong Un. Their portraits hang on the walls of every home and every office building. In school textbooks and television cartoons, leaders are depicted as being able to turn leaves into boats and pine cones into grenades. In every town and city in North Korea, ubiquitous posters and slogans warned of an imminent invasion by “American imperialism” and exhorted people to turn themselves into “guns and bombs.” Defend the Kim family.
It is the work of Kim Ki-nam, who has been compared to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister.
Kim Jong-un is one of the last surviving nonagenarian officials Clean frequently and served the Kim family for three generations. He was particularly close to Kim Jong Il and often attended the leader’s late-night parties, according to North Korea experts.
During a visit to Seoul in 2005, he became the first North Korean official to visit a South Korean national cemetery, a move he would not have made without Kim Jong Il’s approval. In 2009, he led another North Korean delegation to Seoul to express condolences on the death of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who held the first inter-Korean summit with Kim Jong-il in 2000.
Kim Ki-nam was one of seven senior Workers’ Party officials and KPA generals who escorted the coffin of Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011, with Kim Jong-un.
Under the Kim family’s iron-clad rule in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, senior officials outside Kim Jong-un’s immediate family are ultimately considered expendable. This makes Kim Keenan’s longevity all the more remarkable.
He earned Kim Jong Un’s trust by helping the young leader establish its domestic leadership After his father’s death.
In what outside analysts saw as a clever propaganda plan, Kim Jong-un had his hair styled and dressed like his grandfather Kim Il-sung during his first public appearance as heir. Kim Il Sung is still revered as a god-like figure by the North Korean people. Every detail of Kim Jong Un’s public appearances – from the hat and coat he wears to the way he holds his cigarette – is carefully crafted to evoke the image of North Korea’s founder.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim Jong Un visited Kim Jong Un’s coffin early Wednesday and “expressed deep condolences on the death of the old revolutionary who had been a competent official in the ideological field of the party.” Remaining infinitely loyal”. news agency said.
