Kim Young-sam | 1927 - 2015
South Korean President Kim Young-sam addresses Korean Americans during a reception at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on Sept. 2, 1996.
(Kim Kulish / AFP/Getty Images)Former South Korean President Kim Young-sam, who served from 1993 to 1998, has died at 87.
Kim Young-sam, center, then leader of the opposition to South Korea’s military-controlled government, is arrested by plainclothes police in Seoul on Feb. 13, 1986.
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South Korean President Kim Young-sam welcomes President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton to the Blue House in Seoul on July 10, 1993.
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South Korean President Kim Young-sam, right, meets Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashmoto in 1996.
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South Korean President Kim Young-sam, right, meets Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Seoul in 1995.
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin, right, and South Korean President Kim Young-sam share a toast at the Kremlin in Moscow in 1994.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, and South Korean President Kim Young-sam at the United Nations in 1997.
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South Korean President Kim Young-sam and his wife, Sohn Hyung-Soon, greet Korean Americans during a reception at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on Sept. 2, 1996.
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