One-time leader of the opposition, Kim Dae Jung spoke out vigorously against the dictatorship that ruled South Korea from the 1960s to the 1980s

Looking Back at Former President Kim Dae Jung

Up until his death in Seoul on Aug. 18, 2009, former South Korean President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kim Dae Jung believed that reconciliation was possible on the Korean peninsula

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