North Vietnam was largely unprepared to assimilate the South. Problems of
poveity, prostitution and drug addiction were rainpant. Naturally, widespread political
repression held power over the South. Many anti-Communists were airested without
trial, sent to "re-education camps", and were bnitally tortured. Despite the remaining
tension between North and South, the two were united in July, 1976. Vietnam continued
to have guerilla conflicts with Cambodia (the Klimer Rouge) and Cliina until the U.N.
finally settled peace between them in 1992. Since then, Vietnam has remained relatively
peaceful and is not an um'ealistic tourist destination