Le Duc Tho

Awarded for

Negotiating the Paris Peace Accords to end the Vietnam War

Shared with: Henry Kissinger (USA)

The story behind the prize

Le Duc Tho and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger negotiated in Paris for years. The January 1973 accords led to the withdrawal of US troops, but fighting continued until North Vietnam took Saigon in 1975. Tho refused the prize, saying there was not yet peace; Kissinger accepted it.

About

North Vietnamese diplomat and revolutionary.

Exam facts

• Only person to decline the Peace Prize, saying peace had not yet been achieved