::::Korean war of aggression cost as many as 2.5 million lives (see: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM), including 500,000 South Korean POWs worked to death in concentration camps. Given the large number of "hostiles" sent to perform hard labor in North Korea (not counting those in the concentration camps)--possibly more than 4 million in 1989 alone according to human rights groups--more than 2 million North Koreans have been killed by the state through slave labor since the end of the war if we assume a death rate of just over 1%. (See: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM) A ''further'' 3 million North Koreans have been starved to death by the state in just the most recent famine. (See: http://www.rense.com/political/koreastarve.htm) South Korean intelligence shows the pop. fell from 25m to 22m: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat2.htm#North | ::::Korean war of aggression cost as many as 2.5 million lives (see: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM), including 500,000 South Korean POWs worked to death in concentration camps. Given the large number of "hostiles" sent to perform hard labor in North Korea (not counting those in the concentration camps)--possibly more than 4 million in 1989 alone according to human rights groups--more than 2 million North Koreans have been killed by the state through slave labor since the end of the war if we assume a death rate of just over 1%. (See: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM) A ''further'' 3 million North Koreans have been starved to death by the state in just the most recent famine. (See: http://www.rense.com/political/koreastarve.htm) South Korean intelligence shows the pop. fell from 25m to 22m: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat2.htm#North |