Kim Dae Jung
(b. 1924), president of South Korea and winner of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize. Kim Dae Jung, a long-time opposition leader, was elected president of South Korea in December 1997. He was bo...
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Kim Dae-jung (born 1925) was elected president of South Korea in 1997. He worked for the restoration of democracy and human rights in South Korea following the last popular presidential election there...
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TOKYO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Former South Korean president Kim
Dae-jung is unhappy with a spy agency report on his abduction
in Tokyo in 1973 because it failed to make clear that the
purpose of the k...
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(EDS: RECASTING WITH FUKUDA'S REMARKS)
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda deplored Wednesday the South Korean
government's involvement in the 1973 abduction of Kim Dae Jung, then
an opposition lead...
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(EDS: RECASTING WITH MACHIMURA COMMENTS, INFO)
Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said Wednesday it is
a ''very big problem'' that the South Korean government was involved
in the 197...
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said Wednesday it is
''strange'' that former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who
recently criticized Japan for failing to protect him at the ti...
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South Korea's intelligence agency considered asking a Japanese
crime syndicate to kill Kim Dae Jung before the opposition leader,
who later became the country's president, was abducted from a...
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(EDS; ADDING DETAILS)
South Korea conveyed to Japan on Wednesday ''deep regrets'' that
its former intelligence agency was involved in the 1973 abduction of
former President Kim Dae Jung, t...
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(Refiles, recasts paragraphs 1 and 2 to make clear the report
was by South Korea's spy agency) TOKYO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Former South Korean president Kim
Dae-jung is unhappy with a Seoul spy agen...
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(EDS: ADDING DETAILS FROM REPORT)
The South Korean government on Wednesday released a report
admitting its former intelligence agency's involvement in the
abduction of Kim Dae Jung, a leadin...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH S. KOREA'S EXPRESSIONS OF REGRET, JAPAN'S
REACTION)
The South Korean government on Wednesday released a report
admitting its former intelligence agency's involvement in t...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH KIM'S REACTION, ADDING BACKGROUND)
The South Korean government on Wednesday released a report
admitting its former intelligence agency's involvement in the
abduction of K...
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