of three years or so we killed off what twenty percent of the population said air force general curtis le may head of the strategic air command during the korean war he said that back in one thousand nine hundred four dean rusk a supporter of the war and later secretary of state said the united states bombed everything that moved in north korea every brick standing on top of another of the running low on urban targets u.s. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war flooding farmland and destroying crops when we ran out of targets so we started hitting the dams on the farms we dropped a don't all of the zigs one hundred thirty five thousand tons of bombs included thirty two thousand five hundred tons of napalm on north korea which is more than during the whole pacific campaign of world war two. we killed over twenty percent something thirty percent of their population to put that into perspective during world war two the u.k. lost close to one percent of its population france lost one point three percent and china lost roughly one point nine percent the

military general in the united states who helped destroy that country through the north korean war, curtis le mayhe said anywhere from 30% to 70% of every city, town, village and hamlet in north korea was destroyed. kurt esle may said approximate 20% to 30% of their population was killed during the north korean war. john, american people have forgotten that or didn't even know it. but the north koreans, john, never have forgotten it. if you want to understand this so-called aggressiveness we try to blame on north korea and kim jong-un, go back in history and find out what we did to those people's country. last comment and i say this, john, with very careful forethought. i for one hope north korea yeah is able to build bigger and better nuclear bombs every day because that's the only protection they're going to have from the united states. if the united states tries to take military action like some of these callers calling in advocating, then the united states may for the first time get a taste of what it's been dishing out to countries all over the world. thanks, john. host: omar in indiana this

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