Despite South Vietnam's vulnerability, Hanoi chose not to pursue reunification in the late 1950s because
A. Ho Chi Minh believed that Vietnam should only be reunified by peaceful means.
B. Hanoi feared that America would respond to any aggression with nuclear weapons.
C. Hanoi faced daunting postwar reconstruction and nation-building problems including popular resistance to its program of land reform.
D. periodic border skirmishes with China compelled North Vietnam to station most of its troops on its northern border.
E. All of these.
Answer: C
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