Military Strength
Political prisoners in southern Korea by 1947: 22,000 (twice as many as under the Japanese occupation)
Estimated number of leftist political prisoners executed by South Korean police and military in the "summer of terror" of 1950: at least 100,000 (historians consider this a "very conservative" estimate)
Estimated strength of the North Korean army in 1950: 135,000 men
Estimated strength of the South Korean army in 1950: 95,000 men