ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តបិទមុខ

Le Duc Tho, pseudonym of Phan Dinh Khai (1911-1990), Vietnamese Communist leader, born in northern Vietnam. Twice imprisoned for his nationalist activities by the French (1930-1936; 1939-1944), he later rose to the top echelon of party leaders in North Vietnam. From 1968 to 1973 Tho was the chief negotiator for North Vietnam at the Paris peace talks aimed at ending the Vietnam War, and he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, along with the United States secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger, for negotiating the Vietnam cease-fire agreement. Tho, however, rejected the prize, stating that “peace has not really been established.” He was a member of the party's Politburo from 1955 through 1986.