【朝鮮戰爭美軍的參與人數與傷亡:到韓國5,720,000人,死亡54246人】
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Population
Population of Korea in 1950: 30 million
Population of North Korea in 1950: 9 million
Population of South Korea in 1950: 21 million9
Geography
Length of Korea: almost 600 miles
Width of Korea: 200 miles at its widest, 90 miles at its narrowest
Total land area of Korea: 85,000 square miles
Total coastline of Korea: 5,600 miles11
Political Imprisonment
Political prisoners in South Korea by 1947: 22,000 (twice as many as under the Japanese occupation)8
Estimated number of leftist political prisoners executed by South Korean police and military in the "Summer of Terror" of 1950: at least 100,000 (historians consider this a "very conservative" estimate)10
War Involvement
Estimated strength of the North Korean army in 1950: 135,000 men
Estimated strength of the South Korean army in 1950: 95,000 men12
Number of non-American troops from other UN member states sent to aid South Korea: about 40,000
Number of British Commonwealth troops sent to aid South Korea: about 20,000
Number of American troops sent to aid South Korea: 5,720,00014
5百72萬美國軍人被送到南韓的出處:
14 Richard Whelan, Drawing the Line: The Korean War, 1950-1953 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990), 153.