http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/full/2015/03/25/26/1200000000AEN20150325000200315F.html
Yonhap News Agency
2015/03/25
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Yonhap) -- The United States did carry out limited
cyber-operations against North Korea in response to the communist nation's
alleged hacking attack on Sony Pictures, but the operations did not cause
the North's Internet outage, a report said Tuesday.
North Korea's Internet connections suffered outages for days in late
December after U.S. President Barack Obama blamed the communist nation for
the massive hack on Sony and promised a "proportional response."
But the U.S. has since neither confirmed nor denied its role in the
North's Internet outages.
The issue re-emerged last week as Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of
the House Homeland Security Committee, told a cyber-security event in
Washington that the North's Internet outage was retaliation for the Sony
hack.
The lawmaker was quoted as saying, "There were some cyber responses to
North Korea."
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