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 GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) - Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung called for the peaceful unification of the divided peninsula at a celebration Wednesday marking his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il six years ago.
"Unification is the ultimate goal of our nation," Kim said in at an opening ceremony for the celebrations that include North and South Koreans in this southwestern city of Gwangju, according to a text of his speech released by officials.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is set to reprise his landmark June 2000 trip later this month and return to Pyongyang. Kim Dae-jung said he plans to hold talks with the North's leader on how to achieve unification and how to realize his dream of linking the peninsula to Europe via a railway.
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