USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly 5 million people died. More than half of these–about 10 percent of Korea’s prewar population–were civilians. (This rate of civilian casualties was higher than World War II’s and the Vietnam War’s.)

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1950, a North Korean invasion began the Korean War, which saw extensive U.S.-led U.N. intervention in support of the South, while the North received support from China and from the Soviet Union. Some 1, 780, 000 Americans served in the war, with 36, 574 killed, 103, 284 wounded, and 4, 714 taken as prisoners of war.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the campaign, conventional weapons such as explosives, incendiary bombs, and napalm destroyed nearly all of the country’s cities and towns, including an estimated 85 percent of its buildings.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the American estimates, about 920, 000 Chinese soldiers had been killed or wounded during the war. After they add North Korea’s casualties to this number, the Americans believed that the Chinese and North Koreans suffered a total of 1.42 to 1.5 million casualties.