{"id":63908,"date":"2024-05-08T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T05:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/kim-ki-nam-north-korea-propaganda-chief-death-age-94"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T05:26:32","slug":"kim-ki-nam-north-korean-propaganda-chief-who-shaped-dynastys-personality-cult-dies-aged-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63908","title":{"rendered":"Kim Ki-nam, North Korean propaganda chief who shaped dynasty\u2019s personality cult, dies aged 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Ki-nam was known as \u2018the North Korean Goebbels\u2019 in the South due to his role as head of propaganda department<\/p>\n<p>Kim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and cemented their political legitimacy, has died, official media have said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Ki-nam died on Tuesday aged 94 from multiple organ failure, official KCNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/kim-ki-nam-north-korea-propaganda-chief-death-age-94\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Ki-nam was known as \u2018the North Korean Goebbels\u2019 in the South due to his role as head of propaganda departmentKim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and cemented their political legitimacy, has died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908\/revisions\/63909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}