I understand your unwillingness to continue the thread. The blood red appearanc of US in each of these articles is, of course, intended as you suggest. You haven't missed anything with the articles. None of them contains any information at all about waht caused the accident - how it came about.
For all we know at this point, they were playing chicken with the vehicle. (Not suggesting that's the case, only pointing out that the Korea Times articles are spectacularly uninformative.)

It seems very clear that the author(s) of these articles as well as the rioters are much more concerned about exacting blood than they are about determining what happened.


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