KUALA LUMPUR: United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a stopover in Laos' capital Vientiane on Wednesday in the first high-ranking US visit since the Vietnam War. The trip was monumental for both Laos and the US, considering that Laotian citizens continue to die from left over ordnance decades after the American military dropped some 260 million cluster bombs in its “secret war” on Laos to stop North Vietnamese supply lines during the 1960s and early 1970s. Clinton, in the brief visit, met with Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong and others. The State Department said she talked on how to clean-up the American bombs from the land, as well as how to move forward on their relationship despite what reports suggested was an odd sense of estrangement between the American official and her Laos counterparts. “We have to do more,” Clinton responded. “That's one of the reasons I wanted to come here today, so that we can tell more people about the work that we should be doing together.” Clinton passing through Laos en route to Phonm Penh, Cambodia, to attend the ASEAN group of 10 Southeast Asian nations meeting. The trip is intended to underline the Obama administration's much-promoted strategic pivot toward Asia, and more particularly to convince ASEAN nations that American interests in the region are economic as well as security-based. Clinton is to unveil a number of economic initiatives and private-sector business deals during the trip.