USA advance to sanctions against North Korea because of … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

Still saga between the US and North Korea around the controversial film The Interview. This Friday, Washington announced the first sanctions on North Korean regime in response to cyber attacks to Sony Pictures.

                     

                          The American President, Barack Obama, I promised a “proportionate” response to the attack on the producer that the United States give the hackers at the service of the Government of Pyongyang, because of the movie The Interview , which revolves around an interview and lídre killer of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. This response a ppeared more than a month later, in the form of a strengthening of economic sanctions existing against North Korea.

The executive order signed by Obama “is a response to the actions and provocative policies, destabilizing and repressive government of North Korea, particularly its destructive and coercive cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, “reads the White House statement. “Today’s actions [Friday] are only the first aspect of our response,” concludes the document.

After the public condemnation of Obama regarding the North Korean cyber attacks, the country was without Internet access for nine hours. And the same happened after KIm have called “monkey Obama.”

The US Government does not assume any responsibility for what happened and, on Friday, shortly after the announcement of sanctions, an official of the Administration suggested have been the very North Korean regime to have orchestrated the blackout, told Reuters.

The US Treasury added ten North Korean officials, two companies of weapons and the intelligence service of the system to the list of sanctions, which “deny people designated the access to the US financial system and prohibit US citizens from entering into transactions or business with them.”

Sanctions pass to cover the Pyongyang Information Service (RGB), which according to the US is through which “many of the main computer operations in North Korea,” the company Trade and Mining Development of Korea, qualified as the “main arms dealer “of the country, and the company of Tangun Trade,” responsible for the procurement of goods and technologies to support research and development of defense programs. “

” We will continue to use this extended tool and powerful to expose the activities of the leaders of the North Korean Government and its entities, “said the Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, in a statement.

The United States has applied to North Korea sanctions in other occasions, particularly because of nuclear weapons development. A new strain of focus emerged in relations between the two countries after the hacking attempt that, in late November, exposed confidential material on the Sony employees and revealed email with embarrassing information about some of the biggest stars Hollywood

The threats of the group of hackers. – self-appointed Guardians of Peace – led the producer to cancel the premiere and the screening of the film The Interview , a comedy about an attempt to murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Sony’s decision was criticized by Obama and in the meantime, the film then actually debut in the normal commercial channels in the US and on the Internet.