Nobel Laureate And Former US Diplomat Henry Kissinger Dies At 100 (Image: X/myfxtrader)
Henry Alfred Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Secretary of State, who crafted the country’s Cold War history died at the age of 100 on Wednesday. His highly priced service extended up to under two US President’s and left incredible remarks on the US foreign policy. He earned a controversial Nobel Prize in 1973 for his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam.
Mr Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut, reported the news agency Reuters quoting a statement from his geopolitical consulting firm Kissinger Associates. Even after turning 100, Mr Kissinger was attending meetings in the White House and publishing a book regarding leadership styles. He recently testified before a Senate committee regarding the nuclear threat that North Korea posed and made a surprise visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in July this year.
Henry Alfred Kissinger was born on May 27, 1923. He was an American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
He was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938. He studied at the Harvard College and excelled academically. Mr Kissinger was a leading figure in the United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977 where he orchestrated relations with the Soviet Union and China. It later came to known as the shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiating the Paris Peace Accords, that eventually ended the American involvement in the Vietnam War.
After retiring from the government vested positions, Mr Kissinger formed the Kissinger Associates, an international geopolitical consulting firm, and also wrote a dozen books on diplomatic history and international relations.
It was in 1973 Mr Kissinger was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho, a Vietnamese diplomat. They were recognised for their work on the Paris Peace Accord which prompted the withdrawal of American forces from the Vietnam War. But Le Duc Tho rejected the recognition saying that peace had not actually been achieved in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Mr Kissinger donated his prize money to charity. He refused to attend the award ceremony and later offered to return his prize medal after the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese forces 18 months later.
