North Korea Denies Hand in Sony Cyberattack

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Says DPRK sympathizers could be behind ‘righteous’ act

The devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures that rendered most of the movie studio’s computers unusable for over a week and left the hackers behind the attack in possession of copious amounts of sensitive data is currently being probed by both forensic experts hired by the company and the FBI. Although the identity of the perpetrators has yet to be established, many believe there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that points to a North Korean hand. Perhaps fed up with all the incriminatory rumors, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday dismissed all talk of its involvement in the attack on Sony in its own inimitable style.

The denial came in the form of a statement issued by an unnamed spokesman for the Policy Department of the National Defence Commission (NDC) to state-run mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). While the North Korean government denied any involvement in the attack, it did so in a way only it can, gloating over Sony Pictures’ cyber plight and slamming both South Korea and the U.S. for “pulling up others for no specific reason when something undesirable happens in their own land.” It views the attack that “paralyzed” Sony as being the perfect comeuppance for making a film that it sees as abetment of “a terrorist act.”(The film in question is the “The Interview”, an upcoming comedy about a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un.)
“We do not know where in America the Sony Pictures is situated and for what wrongdoings it became the target of the attack nor we feel the need to know about it,” the North Korean government said in its statement. “But what we clearly know is that the Sony Pictures is the very one which was going to produce a film abetting a terrorist act while hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK by taking advantage of the hostile policy of the U.S. administration towards the DPRK.”
“We already called upon the world to turn out in the just struggle to put an end to U.S. imperialism, the chieftain of aggression and the worst human rights abuser that tramples down the universal rights of people to peaceful and stable life and violates the sovereignty of other countries, as well as its followers,” is said, adding that the massive hack may be a “righteous deed” of DPRK supporters and sympathizers.
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