Sony Hack: US ask China for help against North Korea – Spiegel Online

After the hacker attack on the film company Sony, the US China requests in the defense against cyber attacks from North Korea to help. Beijing had been asked to “cooperation,” said a senior official of the US government, the news agency AFP on Saturday. The talks had also gone to “exchange of information”. Washington has expressed its concern.

US President Barack Obama had previously threatened North Korea with consequences. “We will respond,” Obama announced. “We can confirm that North Korea is involved in this attack,” the president said. At the same time, he described it as a “mistake” that Sony North Korea satire “The Interview” retired to ominous terror threats. It should not be that “any dictator in any place” could prevail in the US censorship.

According to the findings of the FBI, the government in Pyongyang is directly responsible for the cyber attack and terrorist threats. With the “intimidation” was moving North Korea “outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior of states,” said the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

North Korea denies the allegations

North Korea itself, rejected the allegations from the USA: That is slander, said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry. He threatened consequences, the US should continue to accuse Pyongyang. The US government does not believe the protestations of innocence, however: “The government of North Korea has a long history is to have responsibility for destructive and provocative actions by themselves,” said the spokesman for the National Security Council, Mark Straw

. In the center of the affair is a group called Guardians of Peace (GOP), which was the end of November a cyber attack on Sony launched and published internal documents and e-mails. A few days ago, the group said, because of the satire “The Interview” in which it is about a murder plot against North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, ominous threats and recalled the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Several cinema chains then decided to take the film out of the program – then Sony canceled completely planned for Christmas theatrical release

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