HO CHI MINH CITY -- Four of the world's five communist leaders are gathering in North Korea this week. For one, the occasion marks the first time in 18 years for a party chief from his country to visit the totalitarian state -- Vietnam's To Lam.
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To Lam (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Vietnam and North Korea represent for each other what might have been, in an alternate reality, if North and South Korea had united like Vietnam, or if North and South Vietnam had remained split after 1975. (Source photos by KCNA and Reuters)
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