IT MAKES YOUR HEAD WANT TO EXPLODE
Sony Hacking Scandal. North Korea: If You Don't Believe We're Innocent in Sony Hack We'll Get You Again
(TMZ) North Korean officials should bottle their gall and sell it ... because they now say the can prove they're clean in the Sony hacking scandal, and if we don't believe them there will be "serious consequences."
Pyongyang's official KCNA says they've proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. to get to the bottom of it.
The official warns, "The U.S. should bear in mind that it will face serious consequences in case it rejects our proposal for joint investigation."
The North Koreans now say the U.S. is slandering them.
It makes your head want to explode.
North Korea proposes joint investigation with U.S. into Sony hacking over 'The Interview'. North Korea seeks joint probe with US on Sony hack
North Korea calls for joint inquiry into Sony Pictures hacking case
UPDATE: Hustler founder and chairman Larry Flynt said as he announced plans to make a pornographic parody of The Interview: 'If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make,"
(Guardian) North Korea says US accusations that it was involved in a cyberattack on Sony Pictures are "groundless slander" and proposed to hold a joint investigation into the incident with the United States. It also threatened serious consequences if the US refuses the proposal for an investigation and continues to accuse the nation.
(Daily Mail) Defiant North Korea offers to hold a JOINT investigation into Sony hack - as Kim Jong Un is mobbed in the street by 'adoring' citizens and denies being behind cyber attack
Analysts say move is ploy try to show that it is sincere, even though it likely knows the U.S. would never accept its offer for a joint investigation
U.S. officials blame North Korea for the hacking, citing the tools used in the Sony attack and previous hacks linked to the North, and have vowed a response
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said North Korea knows how to prove it's not responsible for the hacking, saying Washington is slandering Pyongyang by spreading unfounded rumors
North Korea on Saturday proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, warning of 'serious' consequences if Washington rejects a probe that it believes will prove Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyberattack.
The proposal was seen as a typical ploy by the North to try to show that it is sincere, even though it likely knows the U.S. would never accept its offer for a joint investigation, analysts said.
U.S. officials blame North Korea for the hacking, citing the tools used in the Sony attack and previous hacks linked to the North, and have vowed a response.
The break-in resulted in the disclosure of tens of thousands of confidential Sony emails and business files, and escalated to terrorist threats that caused Sony to cancel the Christmas Day release of the movie ]The Interview.'
The comedy is about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
On Saturday, an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman in Pyongyang said North Korea knows how to prove it's not responsible for the hacking, saying Washington is slandering Pyongyang by spreading unfounded rumors.
'The U.S. should bear in mind that it will face serious consequences in case it rejects our proposal for joint investigation and presses for what it called countermeasures while finding fault with' North Korea, the spokesman said in a statement carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA.
'We have a way to prove that we have nothing to do with the case without resorting to torture, as what the CIA does,' he said, adding that the U.S. lacks any specific evidence tying North Korea to the hacking.
Koh Yu-hwan, a professor at Seoul's Dongguk University, called the North's proposal a 'typical' tactic the country has taken in similar disputes with rival countries.
In 2010, North Korea proposed a joint investigation after a South Korea-led international team concluded that the North was behind a torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors, though Pyongyang denied its involvement. South Korea rejected the North's offer for the joint probe.
'They are now talking about a joint investigation because they think there is no conclusive evidence,' Koh said. 'But the U.S. won't accede to a joint investigation for the crime.'
On Friday, President Barack Obama declared that Sony 'made a mistake' in shelving the satirical film about a plot to assassinate the North Korean leader, and pledged that the U.S. would respond 'in a place and manner and time that we choose' to the hacking attack on Sony that led to the movie's withdrawal.
'I wish they had spoken to me first. ... We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship,' Obama said at a year-end news conference, speaking of executives at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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