Dr
“North Korea actually WANTS a big stink”
I tend to agree. Sure thrashing about is lots of fun, I guess. But the really critical spin out of this is; now this stone age country has managed to man a submersible, pilot to strike, and escape clean. One inescapable clue as to how that could happen lies in that South Korea commissioned (a couple dozen) Pohang class corvettes back in the mid 80s. They are old, poorly equipped, sitting ducks, and if they are any measure of SKs hopes to remain a free nation (living next to a rabid jackal); then the South is in line for a series of rude suppresses.
Rab
Maybe this will freeze all UN aid to North Korea.
Without UN Aid and Chinese Aid that dictatorship would fall in 30-90 days.