First published by Money Metals here: https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2017/08/14/north-korea-tensions-safe-haven-buying-001136

The U.S. may somehow still find a way to get involved in a nuclear exchange with communists 26 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union – even if it’s with a backwater country whose rockets tend to explode on the launchpad. The decades-long war of words with North Korea escalated last week. If markets continue to take the threat seriously, we’ll see more bidding for safe-haven assets including gold and silver. The recent pattern has been for momentous geopolitical events to fade quickly from investors’ memory, however.