>Please go first, I insist. :-)
Mother always liked you best! :~)
Seriously,
We all know it was some sort of a DPRK FUBAR technically. When you want to join the "bad ass of the block" club, you don't bring out a pea shooter.
But if you are Japan, why draw attention to DPRK tech problems. Play it for all it's worth. Get the public P/O. Japanese are willing to hate the Koreans at the drop of a hat, so put the pressure on.
MOS? Probably split on political lines. Liberals; scared. Conservatives; P/O. Royalists; Quietly frustrated. Militarists; Lock and load.
Media? Fuji and Nippon TV probably showing Tora, Tora, Tora 5 times a day, without Yamamoto's "sleeping tiger" closing line. When asked "Did we do wrong in Manchuria/Manchukuo?" Fuji-TV answer probably "depends on your definition of "in."
Blame US or SK? Probably not, except radicals and liberals (but that is being redundant..)
My knowledge of the area not current. I have not been deep into Orient since 98. Gave up my Repulse Bay Yacht Club membership. (I was single and there were sooooooo many young British nurses there.... and I was a young "daring and dashing foreign correspondent.... It was like walking into a women's prison with a handful of pardons....)
BTW, Understand the Brits may chicken out and actually give HK back to the Chinese.
Shameful.
If they do, I'm renaming Repulse Bay Repugnant Bay.
Your read on the affair le' DPRK Atomik ?????????