Back to your question: How did South Korea provoke North Korea?
A: Too many. South Korea broadcasts anti-DPRK remarks on the border all day, sends various spies to spy on internal intelligence, and demeans and vilifies North Korea in all aspects in film and television works. Of course, these are minor incidents. What worries North Korea most is that South Korea conducts several military exercises with the United States every year, and the United States has so many military bases in South Korea that nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers just come. If you really want to fight North Korea, it is not an opponent. That's why North Korea was desperate years ago.
To sum up: the struggle between Korea and North Korea is definitely not a simple question of who provoked whom. This is a heartbreaking disaster for a nation under hegemonism and power politics in the 20th century. It is a historical tragedy for a small country to cling to it because it is weak, and no one can escape. 2 1 century, the evolution of the strategic position of China and the United States will directly determine the development of the situation on the Korean peninsula. That is to say, unless China and the United States compete with each other, it is difficult for South Korea and North Korea to have a day of reconciliation (unless there is serious political turmoil within North Korea and then it is eliminated in one fell swoop).
The above remarks only represent personal opinions, and I am responsible for my own words. I welcome discussion and refuse to scold my mother.