According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 25th, the North Korean Foreign Ministry's US research institute said, "The scale, continuity and malice of this act are extremely heinous and barbaric.
The white paper includes "materials on the historical facts of the United States' nuclear threats against North Korea from 1950, when the war broke out, to the present day."
"The North has gradually expanded and intensified its blackmail," it said, "leaving indelible scars on our people and seriously undermining the security environment of the Republic."
Furthermore, "Even the new generation born after the war has become a target of the US nuclear threat and blackmail,
They are growing up smelling the gunpowder of the conflict," he said, adding, "Nothing can compensate for the psychological damage our people have suffered due to the increasingly severe U.S. nuclear threat."
The white paper said that the "murderous acts of barbarism" committed by the U.S. during the war resulted in the deaths of 1,247,870 people, the abduction of 911,790 people, and the disappearance of over 391,740 people.
The damages from this are estimated at 16,533,400,000,000 dollars (approximately 2,640,000,000,000 yen). In addition, the damages from terrorist attacks, chemical and biological warfare, the USS Pueblo incident, the Panmunjom incident, etc., before and after the war are also estimated at 1,653,400,000,000 dollars (approximately 2,640,000,000 yen).
He added that the material and economic damage from 1945 to 2017 reached $29.354 trillion.
In addition, there were losses due to injuries and disabilities, and damages from the inability to carry out normal economic activities.
The US Institute argued that, including the damages from the nuclear program, the damages are estimated at 78.2 trillion dollars (12,485 trillion yen).
"The United States is not just trying to protect its interests, but is also committing illegal and reckless acts of infringement on the sovereignty of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in every direction," he said.
"'Blood for blood' is our uncompromising standard for compensation and our absolute unwavering determination to retaliate," he said.
2024/06/26 07:04 KST
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