North Vietnam

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noun

that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.

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North Vietnam and the Vietcong were supported by the Soviet Union and China, though at different points in the war, and the Sino-Soviet split complicated that equation.
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She made the first of several trips to Cuba in 1959, months after the revolution led by Fidel Castro, and also visited other Communist-led countries, including the Soviet Union, China, Hungary and North Vietnam.
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He first spoke out against the war in September of 1965, calling for the United States to halt its bombing of North Vietnam and attempt a negotiated peace.
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According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.
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They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.
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Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
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The new information consisted of Internet protocol addresses that Comey said are “exclusively used” by North Korea.
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Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.
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Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
This road ran north and south, and nearly in front of where he lay another road entered it, coming in from the west.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux

British Dictionary definitions for North Vietnam

North Vietnam

noun

a region of N Vietnam, on the Gulf of Tonkin: an independent Communist state from 1954 until 1976. Area: 164 061 sq km (63 344 sq miles)

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