North Korea Suspected of Hacking Sony
BURNETT: The hackers taking responsibility against Sony Pictures is making a demand. It wants the company to stop this movie from hitting theaters.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello, North Korea!</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Proceeding the interview, you will shake Kim's hand with a fatal dose of poison.</s>BURNETT: That's "The Interview". It's a comedy about a plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The hackers are calling it a movie of terrorism. And they have done serious damage. They revealed entire films and movie scripts from Sony. They have also revealed the salaries of 6,000 Sony employees, internal memos and e-mails, more than 47,000 Social Security members, of movie stars, and, well, they've also threatened the families of people at Sony with their lives. Is Kim Jong Un behind the attack? Joining me now, Gordon Chang. He's a columnist and author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World". All right, Gordon, North Korea denies the attack but calls it a righteous deed. You're pretty certain Kim Jong Un is to blame?</s>GORDON CHANG, NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN: Well, certainly. You know, the FBI today said they could not directly attribute the attacks to North Korea at this time but at this time, we have overwhelming evidence. So, for instance, the malware was written in Korea and also the code is virtually identical to the code that was used to attack South Korean businesses in March and June of last year, and South Korea attributed those attacks to North Korea.</s>BURNETT: So, with that video of Kim Jong Un last month, apparently inspecting military planes, right? They do all this pomp and circumstance. There he is. But in a sense, the world is afraid but also rolls its eyes. Does it show North Korea has capabilities no one thought they had? This is -- they've gotten pretty much, I mean, they've gotten everything from Sony.</s>CHANG: You know, but it's worse than that because we've known that the North Koreans have been doing this for at least a decade. We know they're very good at it. We know that they worked with the Chinese on this and we haven't done anything. You know, of course, the North Koreans are evil but Washington has exacted no penalty on all sorts of countries for attacking U.S. companies. So, the North Koreans say why not?</s>BURNETT: But how do you take someone seriously who attacks a whole company over a movie, a comedy?</s>CHANG: We could laugh about this one but if there's no penalties on the North Koreans, then they're going to attack General Motors and Boeing and all the rest of them because there's no penalty.</s>BURNETT: All right. Gordon Chang, thank you very much. Pretty incredible story. OUTFRONT next, the royal couple, they were hanging with LeBron James. Jeanne Moos on the royal tour.