Kim Ki-nam

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

Life

Kim Ki- nam, the son of a steel worker, visited the Soongsil school and joined a group of students at, which was in opposition to the Japanese occupation. Later he studied at the Kim Il-sung University and completed his postgraduate studies in the Soviet Union. He subsequently joined the Foreign Service in 1952 and was initially Counsellor at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, and most recently ambassador there.

Upon his return to North Korea in 1956, he was initially a short time section chief in the International Department of the Central Committee of the WPK, before he took up a professorship at the Kim Il Sung University. After studying at the Party School of the Communist Party in Moscow in 1961, he was Dean of the Kim Il-sung University and authored articles since 1964 in addition to the Rodong Sinmun newspaper.

In 1966 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Central Committee Department of Propaganda and Agitation, where he worked closely with Kim Jong- il, the 1967 head of this department was. After having worked there for five years, in 1972 he was first deputy editor and then editor of the newspaper in 1974 Kunroja. In 1976 he took over the office of the chief editor of the newspaper Rodong Sinmun and was also chairman of the Central Committee of the Association of Journalists.

In 1977 he was first deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly and a part of this ever since. In addition, he was until 1986 a member of its Executive Committee. Kim, who is a member of the Central Committee of the WPK since 1980, in 1981 became Vice - Chairman of the Union of foreign reporters.

After first 1985 Head of the Central Committee Department for Agitation and Propaganda, was taken in 1987 a " demotion " as he was First Vice - head of this department. Five years later rose Kim, who in 1992 also received the Kim Il-sung Medal, but again and took over the important office of the Central Committee secretary for propaganda. In this capacity he was one of the funeral committee for Kim Il-sung in July 1994, and for Defense Minister Marshal O Chin- u in February 1995.

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

Kim will also serve as the ideologist of the Party and a close ally of the new general secretary of the WPK, Kim Jong-un.

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