Would you agree on a pre-emptive strike against North Korea?

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Azuren said:

Wyrdness said:

Because if NK nuked Japan, SK and US before being defeated the damage inflicted would impact the economy significantly much like WW2 did as countries don't just recover from that over night. Look at Syria now and imagine Japan and SK like that along with the westcoast of the US.

"Pre-emptive" is the operative term in this thread. With that in mind, how would bombing NK in a way that would rid us of Kim Dong Un cause a collapse in the global economy?

South Korea and Japan are huge economies, massive attacks against major cities would cause a collapse of the global economy. Seoul being wiped out is a bigger deal than Lehman Brothers going away. 

There likely would be more Americans killed as well than 9/11 + Pearl Harbor combined, there's are 30,000+ American citizens in South Korea alone, not factoring in large American populations in Japan/Okinawa. 

You are talking about a singular event that would basically be worse than the 2008 financial collapse + 9/11 + Pearl Harbor + the nuclear bombing of Japan in WW2 ... lol ... this no small thing. 

If they could have gotten at Kim Jong Un so easily, I guess my question is why haven't they done it already? They are waiting for ... what exactly? If it was easy to get to him, dude would be dead already.