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Top 10 farewells 2009
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-14 13:39
10. Kim Dae-jung remembered for 'Sunshine'
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The hug felt around the world: Kim Jong-il is embraced by Kim Dae-jung as the ROK president prepared to depart Pyongyang on June 15, 2000. Reuters |
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who survived assassination attempts during his years as a dissident and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation efforts with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), died Tuesday, August 18. He was 85.
As president from 1998-2003, he was architect of the "Sunshine Policy" of reaching out to wartime rival the DPRK as a way to encourage reconciliation.
His efforts led to an unprecedented thaw in relations with the DPRK and culminated in a historic North-South summit -- the first on the divided peninsula -- and a jubilant meeting in Pyongyang with leader Kim Jong Il in 2000.
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