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A man watches a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Lee Jin-man

'We didn't do it': North Korea denies hacking Sony, but praises it as a 'righteous deed'

The hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is one of the most debilitating ever targeted at US corporate servers.

NORTH KOREA HAS today denied involvement in a cyber attack on Sony Pictures, but praised it as a “righteous deed” potentially carried out by its supporters to protest against a film featuring its leader Kim Jong-Un.

“The hacking into the Sony Pictures might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers with the (North) in response to its appeal,” the North’s top military body, the National Defense Commission, told the state-run KCNA news agency.

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“The Interview” — a comedy film by Sony involving a fictional CIA plot to assassinate Kim — has infuriated Pyongyang, which earlier warned of “merciless retaliation”.

The latest hacking attack on the US movie studio is known to have included the leaking of sensitive personal information on some 47,000 individuals, including celebrities.

The attack also made unreleased Sony films available on illegal file-sharing websites, with media reports indicating the pattern matches past attacks carried out by the isolated state.

The NDC rejected the media reports as “false rumour” but went on to slam Sony for producing the film “abetting a terrorist act while hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the (North).”

© AFP 2014

Read: If North Korea did hack Sony, it’s a watershed moment in cyber-warfare>

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    22hours ago

    This is great to see and I im glad they were rescued. Touch and go for a bit they could have been stranded in outer space

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    Amazing job Elon and President Trump heroes you are.

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    21hours ago

    Well done to Elon Musk a true hero of our generation. Looney leftists out damaging cars in Belfast while Elon is saving lives. We will be on the right side of history. More and more people can see this every day. MAGA.

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    21hours ago

    @Adam H2022: let’s hope President of Peace Trump really goes in hard on that mad dictator putin today. It’ll be so beautiful & joyous to consign that pointless proxy war to the history books & give those brave young Ukrainians the opportunity of reaching adulthood & old age

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    20hours ago

    @Adam H2022: No doubt he was well paid for his rocket and it was not done for humanitarian reasons. In the meantime he is condoning the unnecessary bombings in Gaza. His attitude is probably what do a few lives matter for a cheap bit of real estate.

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    @Chutes Idiot: President of Peace sanctioned the killing of 330 Palestinians today.

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    @FoxyBoiiYT: Biden administration is responsible for all of the deaths. Trump has been landed with two wars and the left think it’s Trumps fault lol. Just when I think you lefties can’t get any more stup1d you come out with comments like that lol

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    @Adam H2022: So Biden is still in charge? You are so utterly braindead as to defy believe. Go simp for your billionaire masters elsewhere

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    @FoxyBoiiYT: Biden was never in charge as he was actually brain dead. You didn’t notice either as you clearly are as well lol. Shut your leftie hole thinking your tough name calling on an app.

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    @Adam H2022:

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    We need about 8 billion ape masks for the joke of the millennium

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    @Ian Graydon: Only need one.. and I’m sure the orange orangetan will be front and centre upon there return.

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    @Brian: Orangutan*

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    @Brian: it’s funny, but did you have this same energy when Biden refused to let Musk bring them back before the election?

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    @Brian: he & Elon Musk are the only reason they’re even coming home. The astronauts themselves even said as much. The previous administration didn’t want Musk getting credit as he declared his support for Trump instead of Harris so a game was being played with the health & welfare of these astronauts.

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    @James.s.: cool story bro, but it didn’t happen like that

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    @Brian: their

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    @Matt D: The poor astronauts. Can you imagine being used as a political football as your life literally hangs in the balance. Democrats and the left are the low of the low. Watch them try to find something wrong with Musk having a massive win again – The left remind of the DUP everyone is just laughing at them at this stage.

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    @Karen Marten: that nonsense makes you the wnkr

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    @James.s.: rubbish

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    @Dermot Blaine: according to Musk and the astronauts it did. And seeing as he is the one responsible for bringing them back, I would believe him.

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    I’m sure they will be just happy to be home with their families and sleeping in their own beds for a few weeks sureit will be weird for them .

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    @Karen Marten:
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    62 and 59? Hmmm. They must be fit. I presume they will be in wheelchairs for weeks what with the muscle atrophy of a zero G environment and the freeze dried dinners and recycled urine….

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    @N.F. Court: But enough about the Oval Office.

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    @Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: it’s ok Joe is gone, getting the care he needs

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