On this day in 1968, North Vietnam opened its first-ever diplomatic outpost in South Vietnam as the new North Vietnamese embassy was established in Saigon under the terms of the cease-fire pact signed between the North and South a month earlier.

The next day, South Vietnam's embassy in Hanoi would be officially opened; by early October a North Vietnamese consulate would be up and running in Da Nang while a South Vietnamese counsulate was founded in Haiphong.