PYONGYANG. Vladimir Putin with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. www.kremlin.ru.

North Korea has issued a demand to the United States to pay for damages caused by six decades of US hostility amounting to nearly $65 Trillion.

The damage done to North Korea by the United States since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at a whopping USD 64.96 trillion, reported the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Thursday.

The demanded compensation was calculated on the basis of the number of North Korean civilian casualties during the 1950-53 Korean War which left 1.23 million people dead and 2.46 million wounded, said the report from KCNA.

$1.17 trillion was due for damages incurred by the stoppage in construction of light water reactors and suspensions of the provision of heavy oil to North Korea as agreed in the US-North Korea Agreed Framework in 1994, said the report.

The report concluded that “the total amount will be incalculable” should political and moral damages caused by slandering the sovereignity and dignity of North Korea as well as the infliction of moral pressure on Koreans by the US moves for a new war and threats of preemptive nuclears strickes are included.

The report was released a day before the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, which ended with an armstice, not a peace treaty – technically still leaving the peninsula at war today.

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