Military Expenditure

http://demilitarize.org/income-tax-money-federal-budget-2014-fiscal-year/

2012 Military Expenditure  in US $  billion

USA          682

China       166

Japan        59

ROK          31

DPRK         6          

Source:     USA,  China, Japan, ROK:    SIPRI Military Expenditure Database   © SIPRI 2013   DPRK:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Army

Cost of War to the United States:  http://costofwar.com/

                                                                                                                                2008

Source:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_federations_by_military_expenditures

Note: This site provides recent data on the military expenditure of 171 countries.

Arms Imports US$ Million, North and South Korea, 1999-2008 

Source:  Arms Transfer Database Swedish International Peace Research Institute, 2009 [Accessed 9 June 2009].

Available from http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/transfers

For discussion see June 2009 Pyongyang Report “Unravelling the Geopolitics of the US-DPRK Standoff” by Tim Beal:

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/dprk/pyr_index.html

   Arms Exports  US$ Million, South & North  Korea 1999 -  2008

Source: Arms Transfer Database Swedish International Peace Research Institute, 2009 [Accessed 9 June 2009].

 Available from http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/transfers

For discussion see June 2009 Pyongyang Report “Unravelling the Geopolitics of the US-DPRK Standoff” by Tim Beal:

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/dprk/pyr_index.html 

 Comparative Military Statistics - USA, ROK, Japan and DPRK

 Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_size_of_armed_forces#cite_note-31

NOTE.

In an article published in the Asia Chroncile 25th June 2009, John Feffer suggests that DPRK military expenditure is much lower than commonly estimated at about $500.000 per year!

"North Korea has a lot of people in uniform, and its artillery can cause horrific damage to Seoul. But North Korea spends about half a billion dollars a year on its military. South Korea alone spends 40 times that amount. And theUnited States spends 1,000 times more. Neither China nor Russia would support any North Korean military action. Militarily speaking, North Korea is a kamikaze country. It can inflict damage, but only in a suicide attack and only close to home."

John Feffer, an expert on Korea, is the co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 

US Federal Budget Fiscal year 2009.      Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,650 billion 

MILITARY: 54% and $1,449 billion

NON-MILITARY: 46% and $1,210 billion

HOW THESE FIGURES WERE DETERMINED