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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Korean politician and president of South Korea (1998–2003). He won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his policy of rapprochement towards North Korea.
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Bush, with unforgettable irony, called Kim Dae Jung "naive" and negated the Sunshine Policy in its entirety, marginalizing Kim.
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At the other end of the spectrum, key Asian leaders such as Kim Dae Jung have spoken of an Asian version of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
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Shortly after Mr. Kim and his boss, the late Hwang Jong-yop, defected in 1997, Kim Dae Jung was elected in the South and the two defectors were effectively silenced for a decade.
Kim Jong II's Nuclear Resolve Jack David 2011
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By doing so, Washington encouraged Kim Dae Jung, who succeeded Kim Young Sam as South Korea's leader, to give crucial assistance.
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By doing so, Washington encouraged Kim Dae Jung, who succeeded Kim Young Sam as South Korea's leader, to give crucial assistance.
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By doing so, Washington encouraged Kim Dae Jung, who succeeded Kim Young Sam as South Korea's leader, to give crucial assistance.
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“In 1999 there was a bigger incident in the same place where 30 North Koreans died and 70 were wounded, and the North Koreans chose not to respond -- probably because Kim Dae Jung [who pursued reconciliation with the communists] was president, and they were making plans for the June 2000 summit.”
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Kim Dae Jung indeed supplied North Korea with as much as $500 million in order to secure the first inter-Korean summit in 2000.
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So far, both Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun had represented the left side of South Korea's political spectrum.
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Kim Dae Jung always viewed the process as a 20-year effort, at minimum, and he didn't try to oversell the project.
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