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North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of ... North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh apologised and acknowledged the serious errors the government had made in ...
Lê Duẩn was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, leader of North Vietnam and later the unified Vietnam from 1969 until his death in 1986. Tôn Đức Thắng was the second and final President of North Vietnam and the first President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
North Vietnam created the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in December 1960 as a "united front", or political branch of the Việt Cộng, intended to encourage the participation of non-Communists. [104] [105] Ho Chi Minh with Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, and Soong Ching-ling during a state dinner in Beijing, 1959
When Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, he consolidated power to become the undisputed leader of North Vietnam. Upon defeating South Vietnam in the Second Indochina War in 1975, he subsequently ruled the newly unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1976 until his death in 1986.
Vietnam is a single-party state and the president is generally considered to hold the second highest position in the political system, after the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In its current incarnation the president is the head of state of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , as well as the head of government in tandem ...
Communist Party of Vietnam: 4 Võ Chí Công (1912–2011) 18 June 1987 22 September 1992 5 years, 96 days Communist Party of Vietnam: President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; 5 Lê Đức Anh (1920–2019) 22 September 1992 24 September 1997 5 years, 2 days Communist Party of Vietnam: 6 Trần Đức Lương (born 1937) 24 September 1997
Lê Duẩn became the de facto leader of the Party even though Hồ remained its chairman and continued to influence North Vietnam's governance. In 1964, Hồ's health began to fail and Lê Duẩn, as his trusted underling, more visibly took on day-to-day decision-making responsibilities. [56]
Communist Party of Vietnam: 4 Đỗ Mười (1917–2018) 22 June 1988 8 August 1991 3 years, 47 days Communist Party of Vietnam: 5 Võ Văn Kiệt (1922–2008) 8 August 1991 24 September 1992 1 year, 47 days Communist Party of Vietnam: Prime Minister of Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (5) Võ Văn Kiệt (1922–2008) 24 ...