Kim's Propaganda Machine Goes Into Hyperdrive Over Trump Meeting
- State media trumpets images of supreme leader on world stage
- Sister seen as key player in cultivating Kim’s new image
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When Kim Jong Un made his first official trip outside North Korea in March, he slipped into China aboard an armored train and his countrymen didn’t learn about it until he was safely home. Kim’s excursion to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump was a much different story.
During Kim’s three days in Singapore, North Korean state media trumpeted daily images never before seen in Pyongyang. There on the front page of the ruling party’s flagship newspaper was Kim touring monuments to capitalism, stepping out of a Chinese jet and smiling while shaking hands with the “imperialist” U.S. president.