A few years later, as a visiting scholar at New York's Columbia University, he told students that it was important to challenge oppression with the truth.
VACLAV HAVEL: "Truth and morality could have stronger power than weapons."
Vaclav Havel died last Sunday of respiratory problems at the age of seventy-five. On Friday, world leaders attended his funeral at the end of a week of honors. The American delegation included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Kim Jong Il's funeral is set for Wednesday in Pyongyang. North Korea waited two days to announce his death. It said he died Saturday of a heart attack during a "field guidance tour" on his train. He was sixty-nine years old.
The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is laid in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea
On Thursday, North Korea officially recognized his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, as the country's next leader.
Kim Jong Il expanded North Korea's nuclear program while millions of his people were starving. His forces tested nuclear weapons and launched missiles. His actions deeply worried his neighbors and the United States.
Kim Jong Il rarely appeared in public. He had led North Korea since his father died seventeen years ago. North Korea has the world's fifth largest army. But the economy suffered as the North faced natural disasters. It also faced the loss of aid after the official end of the Soviet Union twenty years ago this Sunday.
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