SEOUL, South Korea - Former South Korean President and Nobel Laureate Kim Dae-jung died of heart failure Tuesday, hospital officials said. He was 83. As president of South Korea, Kim Dai-jung helped bridge differences with North Korea. Kim -- who was president from 1998 to 2003 -- won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for fostering better relations between North and South Korea.
He died Tuesday afternoon at Seoul's Severance Hospital, where he was admitted more than a month ago for pneumonia.
Former South Korean president Kim dies
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment