UN General Assembly
1964

30. Today, nearly four fifths of the territory of South Viet-Nam have fallen under the control of those opposed to the Saigon regime and to the United States presence; according to the most optimistic American observers, at least 90 per cent of the population are so opposed. The Government and United States forces, consistently defeated in the military operations, find compensation by raining napalm and other bombs on all Viet-Namese villages and, as a concomitant, on Cambodian frontier villages. For some weeks there has even been an idea of carrying the war into North Viet-Nam — which would guarantee no victory for South Viet-Nam but would inevitably set off a chain reaction culminating in a full-scale war. 31. In Laos, where United States and Thai intervention is perhaps less obvious but just as real, the situation is no better and no less explosive. In that hapless land, the Geneva Agreements of 1954 and 1962 are violated daily and an armed confrontation between the United States and North Viet-Nam may at any moment have the most serious consequences.