He was 92 years old, and is believed to have died of natural causes.
Kim was once a top figure in South Korean conservative politics, and along with former presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, is considered one of the country’s most influential politicians in the 1980s and 1990s.
That era came to be known as the age of the “three Kims”. The trio was banned from politics from 1980 to 1987 when then-military dictator Chun Doo-hwan was in power.
Chun yielded to a popular pro-democracy uprising in 1987 and reinstated the three Kims.
Kim Jong-pil’s political career took off in 1961 when he joined then-Major General Park Chung-hee in staging a successful military coup.
Published in Daily Times, June 24th 2018.
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