By: Foster Klug
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/07/north-korea-sony-hacking_n_6282780.html
North Korea released a
statement that clearly savored a cyber attack on Sony Pictures, which is
creating a forthcoming film that portrays an assassination plot against the
supreme leader. North Korea continues to deny responsibility for the hacking
and leaking of confidential information. A spokesman for North Korea admitted
that it “‘might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers’ of the
North’s call for the world to turn out in a ‘just struggle’ against U.S
imperialism” (Klug, 1). The statement continued by claiming that they have no
knowledge of where Sony Pictures is located and for what reason they were
attacked nor do they feel the need to know about it. They later state that what
they do know is that Sony Pictures is the one that is producing a film
encouraging a terrorist attack while wounding the nobility of the supreme
leadership of North Korea. North Korea sees any outside criticism or ridicule
of its leader as an attack on its supremacy. The statement also said that the
Unites States and South Korea, enemies of North Korea, had “groundlessly linked
the hacking with” (Klug, 1) Pyongyang, but their denial of association with the
hacking also came with a threat. The statement said that the United States
should know that there are numerous sympathizers and supporters with North
Korea all over the world; any one of those people could have attacked the Sony
Pictures. Cyber
security experts have found remarkable similarities between the code used in
the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment and attacks blamed on North Korea that
targeted South Korean companies and government agencies last year. However,
experts are split over the prospect that North Korea or independent hackers are
to blame.
Because North Korea takes any form of mockery of its leader
as a threat or an attack on its dominion, the United States should have been
more circumspect in their decision to make this movie.
