us media conflated the nfl prg vwp in south vietnam and plaf all anglicised acronyms of course us media tended to distinguish the drvn and pavn but often conflated the drvn and vwp in the drvn due to this conflation viet cong is used commonly in english to refer to the plaf nfl nlf fln vwp and prg and yes i'm very aware of the current vwp line on all of the southern revolutionary organs being front organisations they're producing a whig history to invalidate the role of the buddhists cults democratic bourgeois nationalists and local revolutionaries in the national liberation struggle