If Trump starts a war with North Korea and densely populated Seoul is destroyed in a missile barrage

[DemocratSinceBirth]

North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S. It won't happen!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816057920223846400

If Trump starts a war with North Korea and densely populated Seoul is destroyed in a missile barrage how many thousand points will the Dow drop and this is presuming China doesn't get involved.

When there was tension in the 90s President Clinton was presented with an invasion plan. Presuming the Chinese didn't get involved North Korea could be defeated in days. The cost: the devastation of densely populated Seoul in a missile barrage.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. What you can be certain of is the loss of life wont be in the calculation

a Trump White House considers.

It will consider profit for the boss and little else.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, Strictly P&L. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. No doubt Donald will ask Vlad and Alex Jones what to do. n/t

[dhol82]

4. They will probably just short whatever stocks might be involved and then

just go for it!
Return is the only thing that matters.

[Jacob Boehme]

5. Echo's from WW1

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(William Butler Yeats)

[elehhhhna]

6. Tweet: "I told you they couldn't reach the U.S.! Sad!"

[spanone]

7. if a nuclear weapon explodes in this current environment, i think the stock market would be the last

of our worries...

[oberliner]

8. If Seoul is destroyed in a missile barrage, your concern would be with the Dow dropping?

That comes across a bit cold.

[gordianot]

10. Not just a drop in the Dow a catastrophic world crash of financial markets.

This is the one time threat of North Korea once played North Korea is a glass field.

[pangaia]

13. Wow, that is sick.

I have 25-30 friends in and near Seoul, and your concern is the fucking stock market.

[gordianot]

16. Not at all you can kill a large number of people directly and indirectly.

Total war is unthinkable the danger of North Korea is they threaten the unthinkable. North Korea can trigger a world wide financial crash that would spread death and destruction as surely as if a direct nuclear attack occurred in your neighborhood. Like it or not industrial civilization is interconnected and actually fragile.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. What gordianot said.

It would begin a cascade of cataclysmic events.

[Generator]

9. Oh please anyone that dies is just a loser

That's Trump philosophy. Which actually reminds me of the American Cancer society-why are people living longer-courage-if you die you don't have enough courage is the fucking implication. That damn ad is on tv all the time and it pisses me off. I always hated that Live Strong bullshit too. (I digressed bigly but who cares the world is ending and I hate the shame the sick shit-if you die you didn't "fight hard" enough it reminds me of Trump-UGH)

[pangaia]

11. Don't even think that. I have many friends in Seoul, Incheon, Bucheon, Suwon..

And that's just nearby..

[Retrograde]

12. As long as nothing happens to the Trump Tower Seoul

he won't give a damn. (I don't think there is one there - yet).

[lunasun]

14. China might have to get involved as they would be over run with refugees if this starts up

Putting nk all back together after a war could fall on them also
Looks like he and Putin want something stirred up in China's area one way or another

[Calculating]

15. Something does need to be done about NK

Outside of the fact that they're continually threatening the USA, they're also one of the evilest regimes in the world. They have modern day concentration camps and torture caves where they'll send whole families as punishment for the sins of a relative. Their leader is also a raving nutjob (Even more than Trump).

The world all said "NEVER AGAIN" after the holocaust, but it's happening again to innocent people under the sick and twisted regime in NK. This is a problem that we can't just ignore for another 50 years and expect any improvement.

[nancy1942]

17. The DOW might drop????

Everyone might be incinerated but concern is for the DOW? Am I missing something here?