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Japan doubled the Korean population, the US killed off 20%
>"We went over there and eventually burned down every town in North Korea, and some in South Korea, too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population?” — Curtis LeMay, in “Strategic Air Warfare”
>“The war in Korea has already almost destroyed that nation of 20 million people. I have never seen such devastation. After I looked at that wreckage and those thousands of women and children … I vomited.” — MacArthur in 1951
>The U.S. dropped a total of 635,000 tons of bombs, including 32,557 tons of napalm, on Korea.
>By comparison, the U.S. dropped 160,000 on Japan during all of World War II.
>The Republic of Korea Ministry of Defense estimated total South Korean civilian casualties of 990,968, of which 373,599 (37.7%) were deaths.
