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180,000 Chinese Died in the Korean War

According to Xu Yan, professor at the National Defense University, over 110,000 Chinese soldiers were killed in the Korean War, between 1950 and 1953. When deaths from injuries and deaths for other reasons were included , the total casualty figures reached 183,108. The statistics are based on data collected by the Korean War Memorial Society of Dandong City, Liaoning Province.

Source: People’s Daily, June 27, 2010
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