It's said that every vote counts. This is particularly true of a number of City Council races in New York City on Sept. 15, when a few hundred votes could determine who will occupy a front-row seat in city government. Here are our endorsements for several of the most competitive districts where winning the Democratic primary usually means capturing...
As South Korea held a state funeral on Sunday for former President Kim Dae-jung, North Korean delegates wrapped up their visit to the South. In the first such high-level political meeting between the two Koreas in nearly two years, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea met with officials from the North who came to Seoul to pay respects to Mr. Kim....
The South Korean government has agreed to allow North Korean diplomats to travel to Seoul on Friday to bring a funeral wreath for the former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung. Several North Korean envoys are due to fly to Seoul on Friday and depart on Saturday, according to Seon Mi-kim, a press official with South Korea's Unification Ministry....
Kim Dae-jung (3. december 1925 på Haui-do - 18. august 2009) var en sydkoreansk politiker og tidligere præsident.
Han var i mange år oppositionspolitiker, inden han blev valgt til sydkoreansk præsident i 1998 efter flere forsøg. Da startede han blandt andet den kendte solskinspolitik, som gik ud på at indlede en tilnærmnings- og optøningspolitik overfor Nordkorea. Dette kulminerede i juni 2000 med et topmøde mellem de to koreanske ledere i den nordkoreanske hovedstad Pyongyang. For dette arbejde fik han i 2000 Nobels fredspris.
Han fuldførte sin fem-års periode som præsident i 2003.