N Korea threatens attacks on USA after being blamed for Sony hacking

Fiscal Times ^ | 12/22/2014 | By Song Jung-a in Seoul

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North Korea has warned of strikes against key sites in the US in retaliation for Washington blaming Pyongyang for the recent Sony cyber attack, saying any US punishment over the incident would lead to damage “thousands of times greater”.

Late on Sunday North Korea’s National Defence Commission said President Barack Obama was “recklessly” spreading rumours that Pyongyang was behind the cyber attack. Sony has pulled The Interview , a satirical film depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after the hacking and subsequent threats of terrorist attacks against cinemas that screened it.

The NDC said its 1.2m-member army was ready to use all types of warfare against the US. “Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon, and the whole US mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the ‘symmetric counteraction’ declared by Obama,” said the NDC statement, carried by official news agency KCNA.

Pyongyang has routinely made similar threats against South Korea and the US during times of confrontation, but the latest hostile rhetoric against Washington underlines Pyongyang’s anger over the movie.

The threat comes as US officials are scrambling to come up with ways to retaliate after the FBI announced on Friday that it believed North Korea was behind the cyber attack against Sony, and warned that it would impose “costs and consequences” on those responsible.

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NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA AT NIGHT

[econjack]

You know, after a while you kinda see a pattern from this piss ant: Rattle a saber or two and the US will throw a couple of billion his way to keep his tin horn regime in power. Enough is enough...

[mothball]

Wow. They sure know how to conserve energy./s

[a fool in paradise]

So you are saying that North Korea would be a great place to put a drive-in movie theater?

[FlingWingFlyer]

It's absolutely amazing how much da world loves and respects America since the Obama regime rose to powah.

Sarc/

[a fool in paradise]

President Obama hasn’t found a dictator he doesn’t like.

[dfwgator]

What’s sad is that I believe North Korea over this Administration.

[NFHale]

I’m pretty sure Adolf Hitler had a similar reaction to Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”... but Hollywood didn’t go into paroxsyms of fear about offending him. They released it anyway.

But then again... that was a better time, with better people in Hollywood.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: So you are saying that North Korea would be a great place to put a drive-in movie theater?

A great place for a Romantic candlelight dinner :)

[buckalfa]

"Wow. They sure know how to conserve energy./s"

Just think how small their carbon foot print must be !

[mountn man]

What’s sad is that I believe North Korea over this Administration.

I imagine their are few billion that agree with you.

(I know I do)

[UCANSEE2]

So you are saying that North Korea would be a great place to put a drive-in movie theater?

And a telescope.

[mountn man]

"Wow. They sure know how to conserve energy./s"

Just think how small their carbon foot print must be !

Imagine how much they could make selling carbon credits.

[Vendome]

I’d say pack a lunch but heck, you’ll be tired long before you get here.

Might be the fastest war in history.

[Mich Patriot]

"A great place for a Romantic candlelight dinner :)"

If you can FIND anything for dinner...I'm sure all the dogs and cats are gone by now.

[Ray76]

We should just assassinate these evil Kim Junk pukes and free the North Korean people.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” But then again... that was a better time, with better people in Hollywood.”

Yes, and yes.

[The Sons of Liberty]

So you are saying that North Korea would be a great place to put a drive-in movie theater?

How many NORKs have cars?

[a fool in paradise]

Added benefit, no one sneaks in riding inside the trunk!