Looking Back at Former President Kim Dae Jung

In his younger years, Kim Dae Jung was the target of repeated persecution, two assassination attempts, and imprisonment by South Korea's then military dictatorship
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Prison Inmate
In his younger years, Kim Dae Jung was the target of repeated persecution, two assassination attempts, and imprisonment by South Korea's then military dictatorship. He would go on to become one of the principal authors of the South Korean democratic constitution in 1987.

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