In a front-page interview in the Japanese edition of Newsweek, the newly elected South Korean President Kim Dae Jung discusses his extraordinary life as an indefatigable crusader for democracy. Since the 1940s, Kim has been persecuted, jailed, exiled, hounded, and nearly killed a number of times because of his political activities.
One particularly notable incident took place in 1973. Kim was kidnapped from a hotel room in Tokyo in the middle of the day by six men (who were later found to have ties to South Korea's security agency). He was taken to a ship, which set out to the open sea. Kim was tied to a board, and a concrete weight placed on the board. "In several minutes, I will die. My hard life will be over," Kim thought. "At that moment I noticed Christ standing near me. I grabbed his sleeve and prayed: 'Please save my life. I have so much work to do for the people of Korea.'"
Kim was not thrown overboard. Five days later he was released near his home in Seoul. He credits God, and the American Government who pressured the Korean Government to release him, for saving his life.
(Source: Newsweek) 1998
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