Americans of all political stripes and ideologies are today celebrating unconfirmed reports of the death of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong Un. His death, they claim, is a cause for celebration because he was “cruel to his own people.” Never mind for a moment the 2.2 million people languishing in U.S. prison camps subject to manual unpaid labor and solitary confinement recognized by psychologists as a form of torture, or the fact that the only news most Americans read about North Korea is from pro-war media outlets like CNN. Most of the people celebrating the reports of death were completely silent in 2015 when their own country bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing and maiming dozens of innocent civilians, or when the U.S. invasion of Iraq was estimated to have killed some 2.4 million people. Instead these same people choose to focus on the fact that the DPRK is not a paradise for all those who dwell in it. One wonders, how would the United States have fared if it had been subjected to 60+ years of the most brutal economic sanctions, the elimination of 30% of its population and the destruction of its entire infrastructure in one of the bloodiest wars in human history? When a U.S. President dies, the corporate media fawns over them and looks back at their legacies through a rose-colored lens, all the while the trail of bodies left in their wake are completely ignored. Since World War II, the United States has been directly responsible for the deaths of at least 28-30 million people. Every single U.S. President is a war criminal responsible for more death and destruction than Kim Jong Un or any other leader of the DPRK. Americans should take a long hard look in the mirror before being so judgmental about the DPRK’s legacy.

The U.S. has either bombed, invaded or attempted to topple other nations at least 75 times since the end of World War II. Below is list that was compiled from Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria’s Murder Incorporated Book One: Dreaming of Empire as well as an article previously published on Huffington Post in 2011.

Nations subjected to U.S. military or CIA interference from 1945 on: