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Korea. The US bombed every building they could and at the end were dumping bombs because they'd run out of targets.


> Korea.

What are you talking about?

The US never bombed (South) Korea and they certainly didn't win the air war against North Korea.


Back when North and South Korea were Korea, the US killed more than 10% of the civilian population and razed every building of what is now North Korea.


I would suggest that should be a little less acceptable in the era of precision weaponry.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Air-to-ground_opera...

> North Korea ranks as among the most heavily bombed countries in history,[305] and the U.S. dropped a total of 635,000 tons of bombs

> Almost every substantial building in North Korea was destroyed during the war.




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