SEOUL: Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94, state media reported.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said the country’s current leader, Kim Jong Un, visited the body of Kim Ki Nam at a funeral hall in the capital, Pyongyang, on Wednesday (May 8) and expressed condolences to family members.
The agency added that Kim Jong Un will lead the state funeral committee for Kim Ki Nam, who will be buried on Thursday.
Kim Ki Nam, a former secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party’s central committee, “devoted his all to the sacred struggle for defending and strengthening the ideological purity of our revolution and firmly guaranteeing the steady victory of the socialist cause”, reported the news agency.
It added that he died on Tuesday after being treated for age-related illnesses and multiple organ dysfunctions for the past year.
