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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Estimates of the number of civilians killed in the entire war range from 244,000 to 990,000 for South Korea. The North Korean government has never published estimates of civilian deaths in the war, but more than one million killed has been an estimate common among historians who have studied the Korean War. [307]
Korean chili peppers or Korean hot peppers, also known as Korean red, [1] Korean dark green, [2] or Korean long green [3] peppers according to color (ripening stages), are medium-sized chili peppers of the species Capsicum annuum. The chili pepper is long, slender and mild in flavor and spice.
Pepper stand at Central Market in Houston, Texas, showing its peppers ranked on the Scoville scale The ghost pepper of Northeast India is considered to be a "very hot" pepper, at about 1 million SHU. [1] The Naga Morich, with around 1 million SHU, [2] is primarily grown in India and Bangladesh.
e. ^ Korean War: Note: [20] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their lives during the Korean War. This includes all losses worldwide.
[3] [4] Data compiled by the Peace Research Institute Oslo lists just under 1 million battle deaths over the course of the Korean War (with a range of 644,696 to 1.5 million) and a mid-value estimate of 3 million total deaths (with a range of 1.5 million to 4.5 million), attributing the difference to excess mortality among civilians from one ...
The Bodo League massacre (Korean: 보도연맹 학살; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺) was a massacre against communists and alleged communist-sympathizers (many of whom were civilians who had no connection to communism or communists) that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War. Estimates of the death toll vary.
South Korean sources dispute the death toll and accuse right-wing security police and communists of the killings. The event took place during the second phase of the Korean War and the retreat of the North Korean government from Hwanghae Province.