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.