Former S Korean president Kim dies
Kim Dae-jung who brokered landmark summit with N Korea dies aged 85.
Published On 18 Aug 2009
The summit was the first ever meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas.
Kim was also a towering figure in South Korea’s struggle for democracy against the country’s early authoritarian leaders.
For much of his life he walked with a limp that was the result of injuries suffered in an assassination attempt in the 1970s when a truck rammed his car off a road.
Source: News Agencies