Kim sees Aquino's assassination as the result of U.S. foreign policy. "Aquino's death was a great loss not only for the Phillipines but for America. He was very important. America made a great mistake to deal with Marcos, and because America supported Marcos. Aquino's assassination was a kind of result of the American policy to support dictatorship."

Kim lauds the effort the U.S. made to save Aquino's life, but points out that Aquino suffered from a lack of official recognition while he was in the U.S.

"America failed to deal with him," Kim says. "During his stay here, he couldn't do many things for his people. Of course he left here--how could he endure such guilty conscience when he could have a good life here while Filipinos are suffering?"

Kim says that Aquino expressed strong anger at the American government in a meeting last spring for not giving him enough attention.

But Kim says that he is being noticed here. He points out that he has made more than 50 speeches before American audiences, and commutes every week between the Fellows Program in Cambridge and his home in Alexandria. Va which he uses as a base for his official visits to Washington.

However, there is a widespread feeling that Kim, too, may not be receiving the national attention that he needs. "Kim has been received at the highest professional level, but not at the political level," says William H. Gleysteen, director of the Washington Center of the Asia Society and former American ambassador to Korea in 1978-1981. He adds, "I think the lack of national coverage has been frustrating for him."

The State Department would not comment on Kim's status at the White House for the record. Kim's application for the fellowship at Harvard inspired the same caution and reserve among administrators.

"I think there was some discomfort on the part of the University at my invitation. I told Harvard I was not willing to participate at the Korea institute--I don't want to hurt the Korea Institute." Kim adds, "According to newspapers, there was a worry that I might use this University as a base for my politics, but I told Brown [Benjamin H. Brown, then director of the Fellows Program] that I never had any intention [of doing that]."

At Harvard this fall, Kim is attending the seminars of the Fellows Program and hopes to start work on two manuscripts. One is to be an analysis of Korea's internal politics and the other a memoir Kim has already published a collection of his letters from prison in Korean and Japanese: he hopes to have them translated into English.

But as busy he may seem to be at Harvard, one gets the feeling that his attention is still riveted primarily on Korea and the problems there. "I dearly want to be with my people," Kim says, "I am very much willing to go back to Korea even though I would be put into prison again."

There is a South Korean Presidential election scheduled for 1988. "If Kim did run," Gleysteen says, "he is still a viable politician. He is not to be dismissed."