"If it nailed the aircraft, the South Koreans would really be doing some major league tap-dancing to justify it."
Thats a rather ignorant thing to say.
Perhaps but I was in South Korea on a few occasions about 10 years ago and, to virtually all of the younger people there, the North can do no wrong. Reunification is "inevitable" and it's only the United States keeping the two Koreas apart. Do you have proof that they now believe otherwise?