Little has appeared in the American media about the consequences of war with North Korea An article in Newsweek in April concluded that a war would leave one million people dead assuming that it did not involve the use of nuclear weapons or any other outside powers In a comment in the Los Angeles Times last month retired Air Force Brigadier General Rob Givens calculated that 20 000 South Koreans would die every day in a war on the peninsula even without the use of nuclear weapons 