Former President Kim Dae-jung`s wife, political partner dies
(WorldNews South Korea)

Lee Hee-ho, then first lady of South Korea, delivers a keynote speech during the U.N. Special Session on Children in this May 2002, file photo. Korea Times file By Park Ji-won, Kim Yoo-chul Lee Hee-ho, former President Kim Dae-jung`s widow and a long-time fighter for women`s rights in South Korea died Tuesday. She was 97. She died of old age at the Severance Hospital at 11:37 p.m., Monday (June 10), according to the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center. She had been hospitalized due to a worsening health condition since March 20. Born to a wealthy medical doctor`s family in 1922 under Japanese colonial rule, the former first...