Kim Ki-nam, who is often called the “Goebbels of North Korea,” refers to the Nazi propagandist, for his role in producing and enforcing dictatorial propaganda for all three generations of Nazi Germany. Kim family, ruling the country, passed away at the age of 94, from North Korea. state media reported on Wednesday.
According to reports, Kim, who was not related to North Korea’s dictators, died on Tuesday of multiple organ failure after being ill for a year. It is unclear where he died.
Mr. Kim’s tenure as leader of the propaganda machine lasted from the time of Mr. Kim Il-sung, who founded the country at the end of World War II, until 2017.
Propagate central to the Kim family’s Stalinist hold on power. Daily coverage of North Korea’s news media, all of which is state-controlled, is filled with propaganda designed to keep the country’s 26 million people in a fish cult. surrounding the ruling family.
All North Koreans are required to wear badges depicting Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, the grandfather and father of the current leader, Kim Jong-un. Their portraits hang on the walls of every home and every office building. In textbooks and television cartoons, leaders are portrayed as having the ability to turn leaves into boats and pine cones into grenades. In every town in North Korea, posters and slogans everywhere warn of a coming invasion by “American imperialism” and call on people to turn themselves into “guns and bombs.” to protect the Kim family.
This is the work of Kim Ki-nam, who has been compared to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister.
Mr. Kim is one of the last surviving overage officials Purify regularly and served the Kim family for three generations. According to North Korea experts, he is especially close to Kim Jong-il and is a regular attendee of the leader’s late-night parties.
When he visited Seoul in 2005, he became the first North Korean official to visit a South Korean national cemetery, a gesture he could not have made without Kim Jong-il’s approval. He led another North Korean delegation to Seoul in 2009 to offer condolences on the death of Kim Dae-jung, the former South Korean president who held the first inter-Korean summit with Mr. Jong-il in 2000.
Kim Ki-nam was one of seven senior Workers’ Party officials and People’s Army generals who accompanied Kim Jong-un to escort the coffin of Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
During the Kim family’s steady rule in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, top officials outside of Kim Jong-un’s immediate relatives were eventually considered expendable. That makes Kim Ki-nam’s longevity even more remarkable.
He won Kim Jong-un’s trust by helping the young leader establish its domestic leadership after his father’s death.
In what outside analysts considered a masterful propaganda scheme, Kim Jong-un dressed like his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, when he made his public debut as heir apparent. Kim Il-sung is still revered as a god by the North Korean people. Every detail of Kim Jong-un’s public appearances – from the hat and loose coat he wears to the way he holds his cigarette – is choreographed to evoke the image of North Korea’s founder. .
Mr. Kim Jong-un visited Mr. Kim’s coffin early Wednesday morning to pay his respects “with bitter sadness at the passing of a veteran revolutionary, a capable official in the field of party’s ideology, remains boundless loyal,” said the official North Korean Central Committee. The news agency said.
