WASHINGTON - Kim Dae-jung leaves a legacy of controversy over his "Sunshine" policy towards North Korea that is likely to go on dividing Americans and South Koreans as surely as it did during his presidency.
Kim, president from 1998 to 2003, died on Tuesday at the age of 85. Despite a long series of illnesses he died still hoping United States President Barack Obama would pick up where former president Bill Clinton had left off at the end of 2000. That is, by offering North Korea sweeping concessions in return for it ending its nuclear-weapons program.
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