North Korea’s chief propagandist remembered

Kim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and established their political legitimacy, has died. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Sung-Yoon Lee, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, about Kim’s six-decade career, during which he was not only the Communist nation’s chief propagandist, but also its chief censor.

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