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Just looking for opinions on this, obviously I have no information regarding what may happen.

Given the extreme tensions generated by NK, its missile tests and the back-and-forth verbal harangues with the U.S. President, does anyone see a possibility that these games may be cancelled or, if nothing else, a financial and crowd attracting failure?

Nikki Haley has already floated the idea that the U.S. may withhold sending its athletes. Lindsey Graham has suggested that the U.S. should remove non-combatants and families from South Korea, though the military has said there is no such plan in the works. Regardless, the message is out there.

The games are scheduled for February. Is the world audience, who would fly to SK for the games, going to be hesitant, given the potential for some aggression? Will the presence of the games, the foreign population, the focus of the world on SK, encourage Kim Jong Un to do something bold and unpredictable--not necessarily start a war, but something provocative that would endanger anyone in SK?

Thoughts on this?