Comment Re:I was suspicious from the moment they denied it (Score 1) 282
This I can agree with. The fact that North Korea gets the blame is a political process that has little to do with truth but a lot to do with people thinking it's in their interest to go along with it. It doesn't mean people have some secret knowledge about what happened. For some it's an external scapegoat for others it's useful to pin it on the enemy, for some it's just automatic.
When something is pinned on the bad guy(Saddam, Assad,Qadaffi, Iran,Putin) there is very little motivation to challenge that. I know many cases where it's almost certainly wrong but it still has a huge impact on history. And often it assumes suicidal and evil attitudes from the bad guy rather than self interest. In other words people's brains switch to cartoon level.