Kim heads the state's formidable propaganda apparatus, which is likely to be busy in the months ahead.
At the time, the party's propaganda apparatus referred to the incident as showing the "humanity" of the country's military.
The Soviet Union no longer has an enormous propaganda apparatus trained against us.
The Government's somewhat rusty propaganda apparatus seemed to spring back to life in response to this extraordinary event.
The emergence of a market economy is even undermining the official propaganda apparatus.
The party is also mustering its propaganda apparatus to try and blunt worker militance.
This amounted to a threat to financially ruin any director who did not put himself in thrall to the propaganda apparatus of the party.
Few things are more important to Pyongyang than its propaganda apparatus.