Kim 's ` ` Sunshine War '' with North culminated in 2000 meeting with Kim Jong Il . Kim was president from 1998 to 2003 . Kim was left with a permanent limp from the incident , which was widely considered an assassination attempt . He was ill more than a month ago for cancer . Despite Nobel Peace Prize , he failed to achieve economic growth that he promised .
Kim 's ` ` Sunshine War '' with North culminated in 2000 meeting with Kim Jong Il . Kim was president from 1998 to 2003 . He was ill more than a month ago for cancer . Despite Nobel Peace Prize , he failed to achieve economic growth that he promised .