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The Republic of Korea and its efforts for a peaceful relationship with its neighbour, the People’s Republic of Korea, has become of huge strategic interest in international politics. This year, it will be just over 25 years since Kim Dae-Jung spent time at Clare Hall, a college in the University of Cambridge as a Visiting … [Read More]
People in History: Kim Dae-jung
Selected publications
- Kim Dae-jung: Conscience in Action: The Autobiography of Kim Dae-jung tr Jeon Seung-hee, Palgrave 2018
- Donald Kirk, Kim Kisam: Kim Dae-jung and the Quest for the Nobel: How the President of South Korea Bought the Peace Prize and Financed Kim Jong-il’s Nuclear Program, Palgrave 2013
- Lim Dong-Won: Peacemaker: Twenty Years of Inter-Korean Relations and the North Korean Nuclear Issue, Shorenstein APARC 2012
- Donald Kirk: Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine, Palgrave 2009
- Anthology: The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea’s Tiananmen ed Henry Scott Stokes, Lee Jai Eui, Routledge 2000
RIP Kim Dae-jung
RIP Kim Dae-jung, 3 December 1925 – 18 August 2009, who pioneered his country’s “Sunshine Policy” of engagement with North Korea. Kim, known as DJ, who was being treated for pneumonia, was reported to have died after suffering heart failure. The former leader had spent his life pursuing democracy and reunification with the North. The … [Read More]