Kim Dae Jung competed against Park Chung Hee of the Democratic Republican Party as the presidential candidate of the New Democratic Party, but lost in 1971. He then lead a pro-democracy movement against the Park Chung Hee regime in the United States, Japan and other countries, until he was unauthorized takingped by an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (now the National Intelligence Service) in a hotel in Tokyo on the 8th ofAugust, 1973.
He was imprisoned for the 1976-1978 Declaration of Democracy and National Salvation and resumed his political career in early 1980, but was sentenced to death for treason in July in connection with the Gwangju pro-democracy movement. He was released from prison in December 1982 and moved to the U.S. The 10-year record of the New Democratic Party’s presidential candidate from 1971 to his release in 1982 is covered in the 10th anniversary of his death.
(Source: HanCinema)
