>"In the last 75 years, we've done everything we possibly could to destroy the economy of North Korea, and at the same time, with which I agree, we did everything we could to enhance and improve the economy and the culture of SouthKorea." - President Carter on NorthKorea (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nF8SrBt1JE)
During the Korean War, US planes dropped 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of napalm, 75% of Pyongyang was destroyed, and 398,000-750,000+ north Korean fighters and allies perished (this doesn't include the 145,000+ who are missing). The total number of Korean civilian casualties is 2.5 million, with 1.55 million from theDPRK.
Air Force general Curtis LeMay, head of the strategic air command during the Korean War, estimated that the American campaign killed 20 percent of the population. “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea,” hesaid.
RecommendedReading:
>Anticommunism in Popular Culture: The evolution and contestation of “anticommunist films” in South Korea by HanaLee>Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War by Grace M.Cho>Korea: A History by Bong-younChoy>Korea: Division, Reunification, and US Foreign Policy by MartinHart-Landsberg>Korea’s Grievous War by SukyoungHwang>Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom by StephenGowans 