This is just another shakedown by NK. SK will quietly wire a few billion to NK.
Business between SK and China is too good to let Nk screw anything up. This is also designed to make the US look weak in Asia. Thank the idiots who voted for Hussein and the idiots who watch TV because ALL of TV enables Hussein and keeps him in power.
You're Red China. The Norks are a client. SKorea is a business partner.
SKorea is also an ally of the USA, your principal geopolitical competitor.
The leader of the USA is a feckless, naive coward.
Use the Norks to threaten SKorea. Expose their USA ally as unreliable and feckless.
Serves to separate SKorea from their ally, moves them closer to your orbit.
It's a game. The ultimate objective is the diminishment of the USA.
Red China...1
Obama.....zip
It is designed to re-inforce the NORK Dear Leaders image of Divine Invincibility. An easy move against the weakling Obama.
Hmmm...who was Germany's largest trading partner when they kicked off against the French in WWII?
France.
Who was Japan's largest trading partner before Pearl Harbor?
The United States.
Might not want to make too many assumptions along those lines. Rational men don't start wars.