朝鮮威脅將對美國發動報復襲擊
North Korea has warned of strikes against key sites in the US in retaliation for Washington blaming Pyongyang for the recent Sony cyber attack, saying any US punishment over the incident would lead to damage “thousands of times greater”.
The NDC said its 1.2m-member army was ready to use all types of warfare against the US. “Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon, and the whole US mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the ‘symmetric counteraction’ declared by Obama,” said the NDC statement, carried by official news agency KCNA.
The threat comes as US officials are scrambling to come up with ways to retaliate after the FBI announced on Friday that it believed North Korea was behind the cyber attack against Sony, and warned that it would impose “costs and consequences” on those responsible.
Huge amounts of Sony Pictures data were accessed and then destroyed in last month’s hack. Employee pay details, health records, social security numbers and other personal data were then dumped online. The hackers, who call themselves Guardians of Peace, also released Sony executives’ private emails to the media.
Pyongyang has denied its involvement and proposed a joint investigation into the cyber attack, but it promised in June to “mercilessly destroy” anyone associated with The Interview.
Seoul has accused Pyongyang of numerous cyber attacks over the past five years. It is now investigating the online leak of data related to its nuclear reactors after a recent attack on the country’s nuclear plant operator’s computer systems.
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週日晚些時候,朝鮮國防委員會(National Defence Commission)表示,美國總統巴拉克•奧巴馬(Barack Obama)“十分魯莽地”傳播了朝鮮政府是這次網絡襲擊幕後主使的謠言。在遭遇網絡襲擊和針對電影《刺殺金正恩》(The Interview)播出影院的恐襲威脅後,索尼的工作室已經停止了該電影的發行。
在與韓國和美國對峙期間,朝鮮政府會經常發出針對兩者的類似威脅。不過,朝鮮最近對美國政府的這一敵意言論,凸顯出朝鮮政府對《刺殺金正恩》的憤怒情緒。
奧巴馬曾表示,他正在考慮向朝鮮施加新的制裁措施,其中包括將朝鮮再次列入支持恐怖主義的國家名單。6年前,美國曾將朝鮮從該名單上移除。
此外,由於朝鮮涉嫌通過中國網絡發起對索尼的襲擊,美國官員還曾與中國接觸,請中方幫忙封堵源自朝鮮的網絡攻擊。不過,中國並未迴應美國對朝鮮採取措施的呼籲,而只是表示中國反對任何形式的網絡攻擊。