Ms. Que Banh<p>10 January 1973, negotiations broke down when <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Kissinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kissinger</span></a> demanded the release of all <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AmericanPOWs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanPOWs</span></a> in North Vietnam once a peace agreement was signed, but offered no guarantees about <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietCong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VietCong</span></a> prisoners being held in South Vietnam.</p><p>Thọ stated: &quot;I cannot accept your proposal. I completely reject it&quot;.<br />Thọ wanted the release of all prisoners once a peace agreement was signed, which led Kissinger to say this was an unreasonable demand. Thọ, who had been tortured as a young man by the French colonial police for advocating Vietnamese independence, shouted:<br />&quot;You have never been a prisoner. You don&#39;t understand suffering. It&#39;s unfair&quot;. </p><p>Kissinger finally offered that the United States would use &quot;maximum influence&quot; to pressure the South Vietnamese government to release all Viet Cong prisoners within sixty days of a peace agreement being signed. On 23 January 1973, at 12:45 pm, Kissinger and Thọ signed the peace agreement.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseRevolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VietnameseRevolutionaries</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColonialResistance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Communist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VietnameseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AsianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Viet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Viet</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USWarOnVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LongLiveVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LongLiveVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VietnameseSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LearnHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TootSEA</span></a></p>