Kim Ki-nam

This article is about the North Korean journalist and politician Kim Ki-nam. For the South Korean diplomat, see Kim Ki-nam (diplomat) .

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	김기남
Hancha	金 起 南
Revised Romanization	Kim Gi-nam
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Kinam
See also : Korean name

Kim Ki-nam (born August 28, 1929 in Kangwŏn-do Province ) is a North Korean journalist , politician of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK) and currently as secretary of the Central Committee of the PdAK for information, public relations and propaganda responsible for the media, press and culture of North Korea.

Life

Kim Ki-nam, son of a steel worker, attended Soongsil School and joined a group of students there that were in opposition to the Japanese occupation forces. He later studied at Kim Il-sung University and completed further studies in the Soviet Union . Then he entered the Foreign Service , and in 1952 was first counselor at the embassy in the People's Republic of China , and most recently there ambassador .

After his return to North Korea in 1956, he was initially section head in the International Department of the Central Committee of the PdAK for a short time before he took on a professorship at Kim Il Sung University. After studying at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow in 1961, he became dean at Kim Il-sung University and, since 1964, has also written articles for the daily Rodong Sinmun .

In 1966 he became deputy head of the Central Committee's department for agitation and propaganda , where he worked closely with Kim Jong-il , who became head of that department in 1967. After working there for five years, he became deputy editor-in-chief in 1972 and then in 1974 editor-in-chief of the Kunroja newspaper . In 1976 he took over the post of editor-in-chief of the daily Rodong Sinmun and at the same time became chairman of the central committee of the Association of Journalists.

In 1977 he was first deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly , is this on since then. He was also a member of its executive committee until 1986. Kim, who has been a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK since 1980, became vice-chairman of the Union of Foreign Reporters in 1981.

After he was first head of the Central Committee's department for agitation and propaganda in 1985, he was “downgraded” in 1987 when he became the first vice-head of this department. Five years later, Kim, who was also awarded the Kim Il-sung Order in 1992, rose again and assumed the important position of Central Committee Secretary for Propaganda. In this capacity, he served on the funeral committees for Kim Il-sung in July 1994 and Defense Minister Marshal O Chin-u in February 1995.

Within the Central Committee Secretariat of the PdAK, he took over the office of Central Committee Secretary for Party History in 2000 and was also elected a member of the Central Committee's Politburo in 2010 . Since then he has also been the Central Committee secretary for propaganda, agitation, public relations and information and thus largely responsible for the media, press and culture of North Korea.

Kim is also considered the chief ideologist of the PdAK and close ally of the new General Secretary of the PdAK, Kim Jong-un .

Kim Ki-nam is the younger brother of former Speaker of Parliament Kim Yong-nam .

Web links

• Entry in North Korea Leadership Watch (accessed July 30, 2012)
• CV (English, accessed July 30, 2012; PDF; 13 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ These gray eminences give Kim backing . In: Die Welt from February 20, 2012
2. ↑ North Korea: A burned-out basketball star plays Kim's court jester

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Ki-nam is the first name.