BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Obituary: Kim Dae-jungFormer South Korean President Kim Dae-jung spent his life pursuing democracy and the reunification of his country with the North. He overcame the most daunting series of events - a kidnapping, repeated arrests, beatings, exile and a death sentence, emerging as a Nobel Laureate and ground-breaking leader of his country. Kim Dae-jung was thought to have been born on 6 January 1924, but it is reporte
