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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 19 > Kim Dae-jung, 85, South Korean leader, Nobel laureate, dies

Kim Dae-jung, 85, South Korean leader, Nobel laureate, dies

By Barbara Demick / The Bulletin
August 19, 2009

BEIJING " Kim Dae-jung, a former dissident who survived three assassination attempts, one death sentence and six years in prison to become South Korea's president and its first Nobel laureate, died Tuesday in Seoul after a long bout of pneumonia. He was 85.

South Korea's president from 1998....

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