North Korean leader Kim Jong-un commemorates death of chief propagandist

Kim Ki-nam led the effort to prop up North Korea's totalitarian dynasty with powerful cults of personality.

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00:00North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the funeral of the country's propaganda chief,

00:08a figure South Korean press often likened to Nazi Germany's Joseph Goebbels.

00:13Kim Ki-nam, who played a major role in building personality cults around the country's three

00:19dynastic leaders, died earlier this week at 94, according to state media.

00:25He became the propaganda and agitation department deputy director in 1966 and worked with the

00:31government for a subsequent half-century.

00:35North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said the former Workers' Party Central

00:40Committee secretary devoted his all to the sacred struggle for defending and strengthening

00:46the ideological purity of our revolution.

00:50Outside the peninsula, however, Kim Ki-nam will be remembered for authoring the country's

00:55political slogans during Kim Jong-il's repressive regime.