前韓國總統(tǒng)金大中去世（雙語）

　　Former South Korea President Kim Dae-jung Dies

　　Asian leaders and governments are honoring former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who died Tuesday at the age of 85.Mr. Kim died (of multiple organ failure) at a Seoul hospital where he was admitted last month with pneumonia.Current and former South Korean leaders have been visiting the hospital (in recent days) to pay their respects to Mr. Kim, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to thaw relations with long-time enemy North Korea.

　　President Lee Myung-bak said South Korea lost a "great political leader," who served as president from 1998 to 2003. He said Mr. Kim's "aspirations to achieve democratization and inter-Korean reconciliation will long be remembered by the people."In 2000, Mr. Kim arranged a groundbreaking summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il that improved relations between the neighbor states for the first time in nearly 50 years - since 1953, when an armistice ended the Korean War.

　　前韓國總統(tǒng)金大中去世（雙語）

　　洲國家領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人和政府悼念前韓國總統(tǒng)金大中。金大中于星期二去世，享年85歲。 金大中在首爾的一家醫(yī)院去世，上個月他因患有肺炎住院。現(xiàn)任和前任韓國領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人紛紛來到醫(yī)院，向金大中表達(dá)敬意。金大中因化解了與北韓之間長期的敵對關(guān)系獲得了諾貝爾和平獎。

　　韓國總統(tǒng)李明博說，韓國失去了一位“偉大的政治領(lǐng)袖”，金大中在1998年到2003年期間擔(dān)任總統(tǒng)。他還說“人民將永遠(yuǎn)懷念他為實(shí)現(xiàn)民主與南北韓和解所展現(xiàn)的雄心壯志”。金大中在2000年促成了與北韓領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人金正日舉行具有開拓性意義的首腦會議，在近50年后首