"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment"
- Nguyen Cao Ky
About this Quote
This quote by Nguyen Cao Ky highlights the department of Vietnam into 2 separate nations after the 1954 Geneva worldwide conference. The conference was held to work out a peace contract in between France and the Viet Minh, the communist-led independence movement in Vietnam. As a result of the conference, Vietnam was divided into North and South Vietnam, with the 17th parallel functioning as the limit between the 2. Ky explains the two nations as "twin," indicating that they were created at the same time and were suggested to be equivalent. However, this department was simply on paper, as the 2 areas had vastly various political ideologies and were taken part in a bitter conflict that would ultimately cause the Vietnam War.
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