From official Chinese sources, PVA casualties during the Korean War were 390,000. This breaks down as follows: 110,400
KIA; 21,600 died of wounds; 13,000 died of sickness; 25,600 MIA/POW; and 260,000 more
WIA. However various Western and Eastern
sources estimate that about 500,000 to 1 million Chinese soldiers were either killed in action or died of disease, starvation, exposure, and accidents. Overall total Chinese killed, wounded and missing equal about 1 million.
Mao Zedong (毛澤東)'s only healthy son,
Mao Anying (毛岸英), was also killed as a PVA during the war.
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