"Napalm Girl" Kim Phuc from iconic Vietnam photo honored for peace work
Berlin -- Kim Phuc, known as the 'Napalm Girl' in an iconic 1972 Vietnam War photo, is receiving a $11,350 award in Germany for her work for peace. Organizers of the Dresden Prize say the 55-year-old, who now lives in Canada, is being honored Monday for her support of UNESCO and children wounded in war, and for speaking out publicly against violence and hatred.
Past recipients of the prize include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and American civil rights activist Tommie Smith.
Phuc was nine when a South Vietnamese plane dropped napalm bombs on her village, believing it harbored enemy North Vietnamese troops.
The scene of Phuc running down a road crying, naked and with burns across her body was captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
In 2015, CBS News' Jane Pauley met Phuc and told her harrowing story in full -- from badly burned little girl, through years of pain and various methods of escape, she has found her mission in life and dedicated herself to it.
