Tremendous Damage Caused by U.S. Imperialists to S. Korea Estimated

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

Here is what the North Koreans believe the war cost
Korea.  What is really incredible is that they
actually believe this propoaganda.  Its more than 43
trillion dollars.  Does anyone want to check their
math?

Mike Davino

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2003/200312/news12/01.htm#16

Tremendous Damage Caused by U.S. Imperialists to S.
Korea Estimated
    Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- The Committee for
the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and the
National Reunification Institute made public a
memorandum on November 28 after making a joint
comprehensive survey of the human and material damage
caused by the U.S. imperialists to the south Korean
people since it occupied south Korea on September 8,
1945 and estimating its total amount. The memorandum
said: 
    The U.S. imperialists killed in cold blood at
least 2,240,000 civilians and patriots or 10 percent
of the population of south Korea right after their
occupation of south Korea (September 1945-May 1950)
and during the Korean war of aggression (June
1950-July 1953). At least 83,000 innocent people were
killed by the U.S. imperialists' firing, violence,
terrorism, robbery, rape, arson, deliberate traffic
incident, spread of contagious diseases and spray of
defoliant in the postwar period (August 1953-present).

    According to compiled data, a total of over
2,323,000 people were killed and 6,520,000 wounded. 
    The amount of damage inflicted by the U.S.
imperialists upon the south Korean people runs into
astronomical figures. If the victims are considered to
be still alive and the income to be earned by them
during their lifetime plus its interest and the
changed value of U.S. dollar, etc. are estimated by
the calculation method according to the international
usage, the amount of damage caused to the dead is
estimated to be 9,343,020,050,000 U.S. dollars, the
amount of damage to the wounded 13,105,728,120,000
U.S. dollars, bringing the total amount of human
damage to 22,448,748,170,000 U.S. dollars. 
    If a total amount of damage including the
confiscation of "enemy property," the levy of taxes,
extortion of grains is estimated at the present price,
it amounts to 4,281,665,880,000 U.S. dollars. 
    A total amount of damage caused by destruction
runs into 5,145,398,340,000 U.S. dollars when
estimated at the present price, and the amount of
damage resulting from "aid" totals 2,341,469,900,000
U.S. dollars and the amount of damage incurred by
trade and the market opening totals 1,413,903,760,000
U.S. dollars. 
    If the amount of damage caused by the infiltration
of U.S. monopoly capital plus its interest is
estimated at the present price, it comes to
4,233,270,160,000 U.S. dollars. 
    This means, in the final analysis, the U.S.
imperialists have inflicted upon south Korea material
and economic losses worth 17,415,708,040,000 U.S.
dollars through plunder, destruction, "aid," trade and
the market opening and the infiltration of capital
since their occupation of south Korea. 
    Meanwhile, the loss south Korea has suffered due
to the U.S. military bases totals 127,792,170,000 U.S.
dollars and the loss incurred by its payment of the
expenses for the upkeep of the U.S. troops in south
Korea is estimated at 705,395,760,000 U.S. dollars. 
    South Korea's loss caused by the forced purchase
of war equipment totals 1,083,633,580,000 U.S. dollars
when its interest and the changed value of a U.S.
dollar are taken into account. 
    The U.S. imperialists have staged a total of
13,700 war exercises of various forms in south Korea,
counting only those made public. The amount of damage
caused by them is estimated to be 577,742,910,000 U.S.
dollars. 
    If the amount of damage caused to the land,
forests and rivers and streams by environmental
pollution and destruction is estimated on the basis of
the expenses for restoring them to their original
state, it totals 780 billion U.S. dollars. 
    A total amount of military damage the U.S.
imperialists have inflicted upon south Korea totals
3,274,564,420,000 U.S. dollars. 
    They have vandalized and looted at least 38,100
cultural treasures since their occupation of south
Korea. They are valued at hundreds of billions of U.S.
dollars. 
    They have smuggled drug worth 12 billion U.S.
dollars into south Korea during their presence in
south Korea, rendering the people mentally and
physically deranged. 
    They have brutally violated many south Korean
women and reduced them to sexual slaves, producing
hundreds of thousands of foreigners' whores and
mixed-bloods. 
    The sexual damage caused by the U.S. imperialist
aggressor troops to south Korea amounts to more than a
hundred billion U.S. dollars even when it is
calculated according to the standard of compensation
to be made for the sexual slavery for the Imperial
Japanese Army. 
    The above-said estimates are based on a scientific
review of various data quoted by statistical yearbooks
officially released by the south Korean authorities,
publications printed in south Korea and abroad,
testimonies of individuals, information available from
political, financial, academic, press and various
other circles of south Korea and reports of the U.S.,
Japanese and other foreign media. 
    The damage was surveyed according to the
international usage and in conformity with the
specific conditions of south Korea. 
    The amount of damage was estimated according to
the formula commonly used worldwide. 
    The total amount of human and material damage the
U.S. imperialists have inflicted upon the south Korean
people for nearly 60 years since their occupation of
south Korea runs into 43,139,020,630,000 U.S. dollars. 

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