I believe that the Obama administration is going to be stuck with some foreign affair business that it really doesn’t care for. North Korea is basically going to push Japan into modernizing its entire military structure...which the Chinese will not be happy about, and several Pacific nations will begin to ask themselves if they need to rearm as well.
I think Woon is flexing his meager muscles.
With the world now a tinderbox, it's a great time to shove a communist agenda down America's collective throat to divert everyone's attention.