Former South Korean Prez Kim dead
August 18th, 2009 - 5:07 pm ICT by IBNSSeoul (South Korea), Aug 18 (IBNS) Former South Korean President and Nobel Laureate Kim Dae-jung died of heart failure Tuesday, hospital officials said. He was 83.
Kim’s tenure as president was from 1998 to 2003. He won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for fostering better relations between North and South Korea.
He died Tuesday at Seoul’s Severance Hospital, where he was admitted more than a month ago for pneumonia.
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