Thomas More Kim Dae-jung, Requiem æternam...

The "towering figure in South Korea's struggle for democracy who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for seeking rapprochement with the communist North" has died — Former South Korean leader Kim Dae-jung dies.

He "was elected South Korea's president in December 1997, a victory that marked the first time in South Korea that power had shifted from a ruling party president to a president from the opposition," but "it was Kim's life-long struggle against South Korea's early repressive authoritarian leaders that defined him and made his name a household word and inspiration for generations."

"Kim was a devout Catholic," the article reminds us. He converted to the True Faith in 1957 and took Saint Thomas More as his baptismal patron.