Neither. Its a separate country. It borders both the former N & S VN.
LOOK AT A MAP.
Vietnam is to the East of Laos and extends both North and South of it.
North Vietnam is bordered to the west by Laos and China, while South Vietnam does not exist as a separate country currently. But historically, it was bordered to the west by Cambodia and Laos.
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Vietnam and Laos. North Korea and China are also communist but are not in South-East Asia.
Laos, Cambodia, North and South Vietnam (now called Vietnam).
North Vietnam=Air War South Vietnam=Ground & Riverine War
Cambodia and Laos were both neutral. The only countries that interferred in the war was Russia, North and the USA, South. Laos and Cambodia were just onlookers. I did not list countries that rescued or gave aid to refugees
China, Laos, and Cambodia on the north and west, the South China Sea on the east and south.
No, the Vietnam War was fought in South and North Vietnam, the adjacent waters, as well as along the Vietnam borders in Cambodia and Laos.
Laos & Cambodia
Strategic bombing of the North; Tactical bombing in South Vietnam. Covert bombing in Laos/Cambodia.
Laos and Cambodia were both drawn into the Vietnam War because of atrocities the people of these two countries suffered under the hands of North Vietnam. South Vietnam and other countries were trying to keep the North Vietnamese army from spreading Communism in these countries.