North Vietnam moves to secures Laos 1967

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The Laotian Civil War is little known, but when it was done, the nation was the most bombed per square kilometer in history.

It also adversely affected the NVA operations in South Vietnam and prevented them from staging aircraft from Laos to support its forces in South Vietnam as they instead had to use them to help the Pathet Lao.

It also consumed the majority of their Armor Forces preventing them from being used in the South in large numbers till late in the war.

So lets say Uncle Ho makes securing Laos a larger priority before launching Tet.
 
There were a flank of 75,000 to 135,000 NVA troops in Laos during the Vietnam War, so I suppose you mean that this is expanded and the Laotian's successfully counterattack.

The movement into the Plain of Jars did this to some effect about 1970, and the neutralist President Souvanna saw it for what it was. But short of US troops I do not see this fitting the overall scheme of Laos at that time. The Communist Laotian Army was pretty much in the background throughout, and all parties wanted to keep a lower profile, not a larger one.

With the TL, some sort of trigger incident would have to make it plausible, like Prince Souphanouvong dying or getting killed.
 
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