Killing North Korean civilians 1950-1953

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Well, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while horrible, didn't really have such a significantly higher

casualty count than, say, the firebombing of Tokyo.

Curtis LeMay claimed the bombing killed 20% of NK's population. Basically, the idea was to bomb everything - carpet bombing - in North Korea much bigger than a shack. LeMay's statement may have been exaggeration, but most estimates seem to put the # of civilian dead in NK at at least 1 Million. By comparison, Hiroshima killed between 100,000-150,000, and Nagasaki around 80,000.


http://www.newsweek.com/us-forget-korean-war-led-crisis-north-592630

https://www.quora.com/US-carpet-or-saturation-bombing-resulted-in-the-destruction-of-every-significant-population-center-in-N-Korea-resulting-in-several-million-deaths-Why-do-Americans-know-so-little-about-this

some grim shit, right here:

http://necrometrics.com/20c1m.htm#Ko



None of this, of course, is to excuse the NK's regime's behavior, not from my perspective at least, but I do think understanding the psychology of the people is important when we talk about why the country is so isolated, paranoid, and fucked up.