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Only those who have no understanding of the price of war, or who profit from war are being negative.

UN Casualties of the Korean War:

Total: 178,405 dead and 32,925 missing

Total wounded: 566,434

Nth Korea, China, USSR Casualties

Total: 398,000–533,000 dead and 145,000+ missing

Total wounded: 686,500

According to the data from the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States suffered 33,686 battle deaths, along with 2,830 non-battle deaths, during the Korean War. American combat casualties were over 90% of non-Korean U.N. losses.[272] U.S. battle deaths were 8,516 up to their first engagement with the Chinese on 1 November 1950.[273] South Korea reported some 373,599 civilian and 137,899 military deaths.[18] The first four months of the Korean War, that is, the war prior to the Chinese intervention (which started near the end of October), were by far the bloodiest per day for the American forces as they engaged and destroyed the comparatively well-equipped KPA in intense fighting. American medical records show that from July to October 1950, the U.S. Army sustained 31% of the combat deaths it would ultimately accumulate in the whole 37-month war.[274] The U.S. spent $30 billion in total on the war.[275]

Data from official Chinese sources reported that the Chinese PVA had suffered 114,000 battle deaths, 34,000 non-battle deaths, 340,000 wounded, and 7,600 missing during the war. 7,110 Chinese POWs were repatriated to China. Ultimately, "70 percent of the forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were dispatched to Korea as the People's Volunteer Army."[276] In 2010, the Chinese government would revise their official tally of war losses to 183,108 dead (114,084 in combat, 70,000 outside of combat) and 25,621 missing.[36] Chinese sources also reported that North Korea had suffered 290,000 military casualties, 90,000 soldiers captured, and a large number of civilian deaths.[276] In terms of financials, China spent roughly $3.2 billion on the war, not counting USSR aid which had been donated or forgiven; this included 6.2 billion yuan of their own money (around $1.9 billion at 1953 exchange rates)[277] and $1.3 billion in money owed to the USSR by the end of it. This was a relatively large cost, as China had only 1/25 the national income of the United States.[276] The exact cost of the war for North Korea is unknown, but was known to be massive in terms of both direct losses and lost economic activity; the country was devastated both by the cost of the war itself and the American strategic bombing campaign, which among other things destroyed 85% of North Korea's buildings and 95% of its power generation capacity.[278]

CNN reported, citing Encyclopædia Britannica that North Korean civilian casualties were 600,000, while South Korean civilian casualties reached one million.[279]

The Chinese and North Koreans estimated that about 390,000 soldiers from the United States, 660,000 soldiers from South Korea and 29,000 other UN soldiers were "eliminated" from the battlefield.[276] Western sources estimate the PVA suffered about 400,000 killed and 486,000 wounded, while the KPA suffered 215,000 killed and 303,000 wounded.[34]

Recent scholarship puts the full battle death toll on all sides at just over 1.2 million.[280]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War