Personal Leader [1968]
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In 1965, Wilfred Burchett moved his base from Moscow to Phnom Penh to be closer to the ‘action’ in Vietnam – and as far away from Moscow winters as possible. He had formed a partnership with French filmmaker Roger Pic and their exclusive films in both North and South Vietnam and interviews with Vietnamese leaders made world headlines. Burchett's writings on Vietnam were becoming increasingly influential in the US and Europe, where his Inside Story of the Guerilla War was a bestseller. Burchett was worried that a full US invasion of North Vietnam would drag China into military involvement, and possibly the USSR and its satellites. He envisaged a repeat of the Korean War scenario – with the risk of a nuclear disaster – so in the spring of 1967 he revisited North Korea.
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In 1965, Wilfred Burchett moved his base from Moscow to Phnom Penh to be closer to the ‘action’ in Vietnam – and as far away from Moscow winters as possible. He had formed a partnership with French filmmaker Roger Pic and their exclusive films in both North and South Vietnam and interviews with Vietnamese leaders made world headlines. Burchett's writings on Vietnam were becoming increasingly influential in the US and Europe, where his Inside Story of the Guerilla War was a bestseller. Burchett was worried that a full US invasion of North Vietnam would drag China into military involvement, and possibly the USSR and its satellites. He envisaged a repeat of the Korean War scenario – with the risk of a nuclear disaster – so in the spring of 1967 he revisited North Korea.
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