Kim Ki Nam, one of North Korea’s longest-serving officials, who led the state’s propaganda apparatus, has died, the official media announced on Wednesday, quoted by Reuters.
North Korean propaganda chief is dead
Kim died on Tuesday at the age of 94, the official KCNA news agency announced.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the casket of Kim Ki Nam on Wednesday to pay his respects “with bitter sorrow for the loss of a veteran revolutionary who remained boundlessly loyal” to the country until the end, the agency said.
Kim is one of very few North Korean officials to visit the South, leading a funeral delegation in 2009 after the death of President Kim Dae-jung.
He rose to the top of the North’s propaganda machine, becoming its deputy chief in 1966 and then chief in 1985 during the rule of Kim Il Sung, according to South Korean government data. He retired in 2017.
Kim wielded enormous influence over policy and personnel and was a key architect of the political foundation of the ruling Workers’ Party, according to North Korea expert Michael Madden of the Stimson Center.
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