Will North Korea Pay a Price for the Sony Hacking?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The US and North Korea have escalated their rhetoric, but there's still some question about North Korea's responsibility for the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. Is the so-called "hermit kingdom" as sophisticated as the FBI says it is? How does it compare to Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, which is so far the world's leader in cyber-warfare?
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| 0:41.1 | Will North Korea pay a price for the Sony hacking? |
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| 0:55.1 | The U.S. and North Korea are exchanging threats and counter threats in the aftermath of the hacking of Sony pictures. North Korea denies the vastly expensive attack, |
| 1:00.4 | but says whoever was responsible did a righteous thing. President Obama and Republicans |
| 1:05.5 | disagree over whether to call it cyber warfare or cyber vandalism and what the response should be. |
| 1:12.4 | Some security experts question the FBI's conclusion that North Korea was responsible in the |
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| 1:56.2 | Korea have escalated their rhetoric, but there's still some question about North Korea's |
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