President Moon Jae-in, left, then the floor leader of New Politics Alliance for Democracy Party, greets former Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil at Seoul Asan Hospital in 2015. Yonhap
Former Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil died Saturday at age 92. Kim died at 8:15 a.m., an aide said.
Kim was taken to Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Seoul from his home in Shindang-dong, and he was already dead on arrival, hospital officials said.
He is believed to have died of old age.
Born in 1926, Kim graduated from the Korea Military Academy and played a key role in the 1961 military coup led by Park Chung-hee, who rose to president and ruled South Korea for 18 years.
Kim served as prime minister twice, first from 1971-1975 and then from 1998-2000.
He also served nine terms as a lawmaker and was considered one of South Korea’s most influential politicians in the 1980s-90s. He was known as one of the “three Kims,” together with former Presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung. [Korea Times]
The modern Korean history that Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil was part of is simply incredible. He was even responsible for an agricultural first by creating Jeju’s first tangerine orchard in 1968.
Poor ol’ guy, he died too old. His face looks twisted from stroke and his hands crippled and arthritic.
I want to die young…as late as possible.
What did he know about Hillary?!?!?
Commies dancing a jig on his grave.