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PYONGYANG. — North Korea released a statement yesterday denying responsibility for last week’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures, while indirectly praising what a spokesman said might be part of the isolated nation’s call for a “just struggle” against US imperialism.
While denying responsibility for an attack last week that disrupted Sony’s computer system and spewed confidential information onto the Internet, an unidentified spokesman for North Korea’s powerful National Defence Commission acknowledged that it “might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathisers” of the North’s call for the world to turn out in a “just struggle” against US imperialism.
“We do not know where in America the Sony Pictures is situated and for what wrong-doings it became the target of the attack, nor (do) we feel the need to know about it,” the statement carried in state media said. “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 North Korea.
The Sony movie in question, “The Interview,” is a comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, and its plot concerns an attempt on the life of leader Kim Jong Un.
Pyongyang is not amused.
The statement said the North’s enemies, the United States and South Korea, had “groundlessly linked the hacking attack with” Pyongyang, but the denial also included a threat. — AP.
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