With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a tank, at Haengju.

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Approximately 3 million people died in the Korean War, the majority of whom were civilians, making it perhaps the deadliest conflict of the Cold War era.

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According to the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, there were over three quarters of a million confirmed civilian deaths during the war, another million civilians were pronounced missing, and millions more ended up as refugees.

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In South Korea, some 373,500 civilians were killed, more than 225,600 wounded, and over 387,740 were listed as missing. During the first communist occupation of Seoul alone, the KPA massacred 128,936 civilians and deported another 84,523 to North Korea.

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On the other side of the border, some 406,000 North Korean civilians were reported to have been killed, 1,594,000 were wounded, and 680,000 were missing.

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Over 1.5 million North Koreans fled to the South during the war.

Source: Wikipedia