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December 23, 2014

U.S. Rejects North Korea's "Absurd" Call for Joint Probe of Sony Hack 
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The United States has rejected as "absurd" North Korea's call for a
joint investigation into the hack of Sony Pictures. The Obama
administration says the hack was carried out by North Korea in
retaliation for Sony's comedy "The Interview" about the assassination of
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a claim North Korea denies. U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power spoke at the U.N.
Security Council, which considered North Korea's human rights record for
the first time ever on Monday.

Samantha Power: "North Korea also threatened the United States with
serious consequences if our country did not conduct a joint
investigation with the DPRK into an attack that they carried out. This
is absurd. Yet it is exactly the kind of behavior we have come to expect
from a regime that threatened to take, quote, 'merciless
countermeasures,' end-quote, against the U.S. over a Hollywood comedy,
and has no qualms about holding tens of thousands of people in harrowing
gulags. We cannot give in to threats or intimidation of any kind."

 

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