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New North Korea Sanctions Over 'Destructive' Cyber Attack

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sony-hack/obama-oks-new-north-korea-sanctions-over-destructive-cyber-attack-n278551

President Barack Obama on Friday authorized additional sanctions on North Korea in the wake of the "destructive and coercive" cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The new sanctions target three entities — including the country's primary intelligence organization — and 10 individuals as agencies or officials of the North Korean government, according to the Treasury Department.

In a statement, the White House called the sanctions "a response to the Government of North Korea's ongoing provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies, particularly its destructive and coercive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment."

Other organizations targeted by the new sanctions are Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation, which the Treasury Department classifies as North Korea's primary arms dealer, and Korea Tangun Trading Corporation, a group tied to the nation's defense research.

Before leaving for his holiday vacation in Hawaii, Obama pledged that the United States would "respond proportionately" to the massive hack and subsequent threats linked to the satirical film "The Interview," which depicted an assassination attempt against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

"'We take seriously North Korea's attack that aimed to create destructive financial effects on a U.S. company and to threaten artists and other individuals with the goal of restricting their right to free expression," the White House said Friday.

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With North Korea's fuck-everyone-who-isn't-us way of thinking, I'm not sure they care.
 
Nebulous said:
With North Korea's fuck-everyone-who-isn't-us way of thinking, I'm not sure they care.

Nebulous, the Norks' haven't given a shit about anything since the 1953 Armistice, why would they start now? :lol: :| :|
 
Nebulous said:
I know right. :P

Yeah, I mean we're only talking about a paranoid country that could, on a suicidal whim, flatten Seoul with a couple of thousand artillery & missile weapons, but still...
 
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