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...Kim Dae Jung, President of South Korea, was named this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, in large part because of his lifelong fight for two goals: the democratization of his country and the reunification of the Koreas...
...ability to rise above a common human tendency toward self-righteousness and self-interest helped him survive a four-decade long struggle for peace and freedom under authoritarian rule. Kim's outspoken crusades against the government brought him years of torture, imprisonment and multiple attempts on his life...
...created such a following by the early '70s that authoritarian leaders tried to have a truck kill him on the highway. When that attempt only injured Kim, Korean intelligence officers were sent to drown him at sea. With concrete blocks tied to his feet, he was moments from death when American officials in Seoul came to the rescue. His third encounter with death came in 1980, when a court ordered him to be hanged on charges of treason. International pressure again saved him, reducing his sentence to life in prison...
...Kim's style of politics--one of collaboration and reconciliation--has been a completely new experience for the country...
South Korea's geographic lines and regional hatreds have long determined the principal concentrations of its political parties (similar to the Republican party's near ownership of the Southern states). Kim addressed regional discrimination by appointing members from other parties (and thus, regions) to high-ranking positions on his cabinet. To further national reconciliation, Kim pardoned over one million political prisoners, including former President Chun Doo Whan, who had ordered the attempts on Kim's life...