That will never happen because Essan people, let alone Lao people, have no balls...if they had any balls, reunification would have happened years ago. Remember, the old observation by westerners: the Vietnamese will tend the land, the Cambodians will plant the land, the Laotians....the just watch and hope crops grow. TODAY, LAOTIANS JUST WATCH AS THE VIETCONG STEAL THEIR NATIONAL TREASURES....RIGHT IN FROM OF THEM.