[AmericanInTokyo]

Not if South Korea has diplomats quietly going to Pyongyang through China to tell them they know who did it, but it is not worth it for both to go to war over it, so that "we are going to make a lot of noise in the next few weeks when we release our findings, but don't get rattled. We need to save face publicly and rip you a new one. At any rate, just dont let it happen again."

They are Koreans. I am sure they are talking this Korean kabuki (even though kabuki is Japanese) as we SPEAK.

[razorback-bert]

I bet you are correct.

[Little Ray]

Lessee. Choices, choices.
A. Go to war with a nutjob who has 10,000+ heavy artillery pieces and rockets in fortifications just across the border aimed your capital, with mountains of ready ammo.
B. Ignore the provocation and let your enemy continue to slowly starve to death, while you continue getting richer.

The sad truth is that there is NOTHING the South Koreans can do to the Norks, including going to war against them, that is worse than what they are doing to themselves.