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Kim Dae Jung, then an opposition party leader, speaks to the media at his home in Seoul in this photo from Aug. 14, 1973
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009

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  • Bill Powell and Stephen Kim
  • Kim Dae Jung, who died on Aug. 18 of heart failure in Seoul at age 85, was not the father of democracy in South Korea, but he was its consolidator
Photo: Yonhap / Reuters