SEOUL—Kim Ki Nam, the architect of North Korea’s cult-of-personality propaganda ... He attended the elite Kim Il Sung University—where he later served as a professor—and studied abroad ...

Kim Ki-nam, the propaganda mastermind who helped forge the personality cult of the country ... He was a professor at Kim Il-sung University, where he “devoted himself to training competent ...

The Kim Il Sung birthday, called “the Day of Sun,” is one of the most important holidays in North Korea, where a state-sponsored cult of personality treats key members of the ruling Kim family like ...

Portraits of leaders are at the core of North Korea’s state-sponsored cult of personality ... must have portraits of Kim’s father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung but featuring that ...

North Koreans are required to wear pins over their hearts which for decades bore images of either the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, or his son Kim Jong Il, or both. The existence of pins ...

The swelling of the Kim Il Sung cult, which his son set in motion, legitimised Kim's rule while justifying a shift of power away from his father. Under the pretext of lightening the Supreme Leader ...