Former President Kim Dae-jung has been in hospital in Seoul for about two weeks now, and is now in intensive care. I felt I had to go to the hospital to offer any support I could to the family, especially given the links they have with the UK - the President lived in Cambridge in the early 90s and had been host to the Queen during the State Visit of 1999. Readers may recall I called on him in early July to talk about Burma.
I met members of his staff and Mrs Lee Hee-ho, the former First Lady, and spent a few minutes with them. It was good to see that bringing back memories was some comfort.
It happened that I visited the hospital on the anniversary of the day that President Kim returned from Japan 36 years previously after surviving an assassination attempt. He saw this as one of a series of miraculous escapes from death. I can only hope that there will be a repeat of that escape.
Posted at 09:38 14 August 2009 by Martin Uden | Comments[1]
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