Thereafter, Hanoi's em- missarie's shook liands with the Prince, and vowed not to meddle’in Cambodian affairs. Although Sihanouk was still saying in early 1958 that "he knew the Communists were out to cut his throat," the threat was distant. Two hundred miles of Laotian jungle lie between North Vietnam and Cambodia*. , The Ho Chi Minh trail was then nonexistent.