Editing Kim Dae-jung (section)

===1971 assassination attempt===
One month later after the presidential election, while Kim was campaigning for legislative elections, a truck turned directly into the path of his car and seriously injured him and his two aides. Suffering a hip joint injury <ref name="NYT profile"/> he was left with a permanent limp. It has been suspected that the collision was an assassination attempt by [[Park Chung Hee|Park]]'s regime.<ref name="The Seoul Times">{{cite news|url=http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8717 |title=Former S. Korean President Kim Dae-Jung Dies |date=18 August 2009 |work=The Seoul Times |access-date=18 August 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170921/http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=%2FST%2Fdb%2Fread.php%3Fidx%3D8717 |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> Shortly after, he left for Japan and began an exile movement as President Park launched a [[self-coup]] and introduced the dictatorial Yushin Constitution of 1972.