Editing Kim Dae-jung (section)

==Illness and death==
[[File:Kim Dae-jung Memorium.jpg|thumb|A roadside memorial for Kim Dae-jung]]
[[File:Seoul National Cemetery 24 (18451946196).jpg|thumb|Tomb of President Kim Dae-jung in Seoul National Cemetery]]
Kim died on 18 August 2009, at 13:43 KST, at [[Severance Hospital]] of [[Yonsei University]] in [[Seoul]] aged 85 years old, three months after his successor [[Roh Moo-hyun]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/14302282 |newspaper=The Economist |title=Kim Dae-jung |date=27 August 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220164251/http://www.economist.com/node/14302282 |archive-date=20 February 2012 }}</ref> He was first admitted to hospital suffering from [[pneumonia]] on 13 July. The cause of death was cardiac arrest caused by [[multiple organ dysfunction syndrome]].<ref name="The Seoul Times"/> 
An interfaith state funeral was held for him on 23 August 2009, in front of the [[Korea National Assembly Building|National Assembly Building]], with a procession leading to the [[Seoul National Cemetery]] where he was interred according to Catholic traditions, near former presidents [[Syngman Rhee]] and [[Park Chung Hee]] as well. He is the second person in South Korean history to be given a [[state funeral]] after Park Chung Hee. It was attended by President Lee Myung-bak, First Lady [[Kim Yoon-ok]], former presidents [[Chun Doo-hwan]], [[Kim Young-sam]], former first Lady [[Kwon Yang-sook]], and members of National Assembly. However, former President Roh Tae-woo and former Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil were absent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-kim-dae-jung19-2009aug19-story.html |title=Kim Dae-jung dies at 85; former South Korean president and Nobel laureate |author=Barbara Demick |date=19 August 2009 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=25 June 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225113946/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/19/local/me-kim-dae-jung19 |archive-date=25 December 2014 }}</ref> North Korea sent a delegation to his funeral.<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History |publisher = Basic Books|year = 2014 |pages = 437–438 |isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref>