Korean War North Korea Bombing

During the Korean War, after U.S. forces failed to weaken Chinese troops through ground attrition, Washington turned to an all-out air campaign against North Korea. The United States then carried out what was described as the most concentrated bombing campaign in history, killing over 20 percent of North Korea’s population and wiping out "every city, town, village" in the country. By the end of the war, bomber crews had hit so many targets so often that they sometimes had to jettison their bomb loads at sea because they had run out of things to bomb on land.

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