Well, it works this way. The public only hears about American deaths much when the government wants them to...meaning, when the government wants their consent so it can go and attack someone and have another war somewhere. It hasn't wanted that yet in Korea. That's why you didn't hear "boo" about American soldiers dying on the border of North Korea in the last however many years.

Anyway, I'm sure North Korean soldiers have died there too, and we don't hear about them either do we? Of course! They're hardly human, they're not American, and they're "evil" by definition, so why would we hear about it when they die, unless it served somehow to produce domestic American support for something the US government wanted to do? (sarcasm)

That's how it always works. You hear on the North American media exactly what you are supposed to hear and no more than that. The rest does not exist to all intents and purposes...or it might as well not exist.

Besides, even the American public is not stupid enough to start a war (which would kill several hundred thousand or several million people) over the loss of an average "eight American soldiers a year" in North Korean border incidents. At least, I certainly hope they are not that stupid! Anything is possible, I guess...