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[cmurf]

The casualties will, and should, stun people. The Korean War, 1950-1953, total civilians killed/wounded: 2.5 million (wikipedia), and cost $341 billion in 2011 dollars (Congressional Research Service).

And then there will be a massive refugee problem on both sides.

[thehardsphere → cmurf]

And since then, South Korea's population has gone up. There are something like 20 million people living in the Seoul greater metropolitan area.

A future war here might make every war we've had in the sandbox lately look like a summer barbecue.

[astrodust → thehardsphere]

So long as the planet of the population keeps going up and the population density of cities increases the chance of multiple millions of people being killed in a single military exchange keeps escalating.

I'd like to think we can keep a lid on things and work it out in a more civil manner, economically it makes more sense, but you know, dictators don't really care about economics as much as they do ego.