SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A former South Korea president who won the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering better relations between North and South Korea has been placed on a respirator in a hospital, a news agency reported Thursday.
Kim Dae-jung "became short of breath on Wednesday night and was put on a respirator around 3 a.m. this morning," Park Chang-il, chief of Severance Hospital in Seoul, was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.
"His condition has improved since. He is conscious, and his pulse, breathing and body temperature are normal."
Park said Kim, who was being fed through a feeding tube, "has no complications, but has been receiving kidney dialysis for a long time."
He had been hospitalized since Monday and placed in the intensive care unit after being diagnosed with pneumonia, the news agency reported.
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