Editing Việt Cộng (section)

==History==
North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960, to foment insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng's core members were volunteer "regrouped", southern Việt Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954). Hanoi gave the regroups military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the early 1960s. The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification".

The Việt Cộng received support from [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Communist Party of China]] during the Vietnam War. They also supported the [[Khmer Rouge]] during the Cambodian Civil War in their efforts to depose [[Lon Nol]], as well as during the early years of [[Pol Pot]]'s dictatorship.

The PLAF's best-known action was the [[Tet Offensive]], a gigantic assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.