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According to [[R.J. Rummel]], forced labor, executions, and concentration camps were responsible for over one million deaths in North Korea from 1948 to 1987;<ref>Rummel, R.J. (1997), [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM Statistics Of North Korean Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources], ''Statistics of Democide'', Transaction.</ref> others have estimated 400,000 deaths in concentration camps alone.<ref>Omestad, Thomas, [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/030623/23gulag.htm "Gulag Nation"], [[U.S. News & World Report]], 23 June 2003.</ref> [[Pierre Rigoulot]] estimates 100,000 executions, 1.5 million deaths through concentration camps and forced labor, and 500,000 deaths from famine, for a total of 2.1 million victims (not counting 1.3 million dead in the war).<ref>''[[Black Book of Communism]],'' pg. 564.</ref> Estimates based on the most recent North Korean census suggest that 240,000 to 420,000 people died as a result of the [[North Korean famine|1990s famine]] and that there were 600,000 to 850,000 unnatural deaths in North Korea from 1993 to 2008.<ref name="Spoorenberg, Thomas pp. 133-158">Spoorenberg, Thomas and Schwekendiek, Daniel (2012). [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00475.x/pdf "Demographic Changes in North Korea: 1993–2008"], ''Population and Development Review'', 38(1), pp. 133-158.</ref> The famine, which claimed as many as one million lives, has been described as the result of the economic policies of the North Korean government,<ref>Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland, and Amartya Sen (2009), ''Famine in North Korea'', Columbia University Press, p.209.</ref> and as deliberate "terror-starvation".<ref>Rosefielde, Stephen (2009), ''Red Holocaust,'' Routledge, p. 109.</ref>
 
According to [[R.J. Rummel]], forced labor, executions, and concentration camps were responsible for over one million deaths in North Korea from 1948 to 1987;<ref>Rummel, R.J. (1997), [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM Statistics Of North Korean Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources], ''Statistics of Democide'', Transaction.</ref> others have estimated 400,000 deaths in concentration camps alone.<ref>Omestad, Thomas, [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/030623/23gulag.htm "Gulag Nation"], [[U.S. News & World Report]], 23 June 2003.</ref> [[Pierre Rigoulot]] estimates 100,000 executions, 1.5 million deaths through concentration camps and forced labor, and 500,000 deaths from famine, for a total of 2.1 million victims (not counting 1.3 million dead in the war).<ref>''[[Black Book of Communism]],'' pg. 564.</ref> Estimates based on the most recent North Korean census suggest that 240,000 to 420,000 people died as a result of the [[North Korean famine|1990s famine]] and that there were 600,000 to 850,000 unnatural deaths in North Korea from 1993 to 2008.<ref name="Spoorenberg, Thomas pp. 133-158">Spoorenberg, Thomas and Schwekendiek, Daniel (2012). [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00475.x/pdf "Demographic Changes in North Korea: 1993–2008"], ''Population and Development Review'', 38(1), pp. 133-158.</ref> The famine, which claimed as many as one million lives, has been described as the result of the economic policies of the North Korean government,<ref>Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland, and Amartya Sen (2009), ''Famine in North Korea'', Columbia University Press, p.209.</ref> and as deliberate "terror-starvation".<ref>Rosefielde, Stephen (2009), ''Red Holocaust,'' Routledge, p. 109.</ref>
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Strong evidence exists that American POWs in the war were taken to the Soviet Union.<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (September 1, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/29822-evidence-of-american-pows-in-the-soviet-union Evidence of American POWs in the Soviet Union]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 1, 2018.</ref>
    
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