In School Jobs Today 's Paper Archiv e ePaper In-depth eBooks Classifieds Mobile Apps Social SEA RCH Home News INTERNATIONAL Opinion Business SOUTH ASIA Sport S&T Features Entertainment Books Margazhi Data WORLD SEOUL, December 27, 2014 NEWS » INT ERNAT IONAL Updated: December 27, 2014 08:22 IST North Korea blames the US for Internet outages 3 & 4 BHK in Pune - Homes in Kharadi Pune with Features like Sky Garden for Holistic Living koltepatil.com/Official-Site Ads by Google REUTERS Like TOPICS World Share COMMENT (3 ) · PRINT · T 16 Tweet 0 0 Share North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of being responsible for Internet outages it experienced in recent days amid a confrontation between them over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. Use our professional PDF creation service at http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk! T GO Trending Videos World North Korea USA them over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. North Korea's main internet sites experienced intermittent disruptions early in the week for reasons that U.S. tech companies said could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. cinema controv ersies (cinem a) polit ics censorship "T he United States, with its large physical size and oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would, has begun disrupting the Internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic," the North's National Defence Commission said in a statement. "It is truly laughable," a spokesman for the commission said in comments carried by the North's official KCNA news agency. T he spokesman again rejected an accusation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that North Korea was behind the cyber attack on Sony Pictures and demanded the United States produce the evidence for its accusation. "Obama had better thrust himself to cleaning up all the evil doings that the U.S. has committed out of its hostile policy against (North Korea) if he seeks peace on U.S. soil. T hen all will be well." North Korea experienced Internet problems last weekend and a complete outage of nearly nine hours before links were largely restored on T uesday. U.S. officials said Washington was not involved. Following the hacking attack on Sony, the studio cancelled the release of a comedy called The Interview, about the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. After criticism from President Barack Obama that it was caving into pressure from North Korea, Sony reversed its decision and decided on a limited release. Use our professional PDF creation service at http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk! reversed its decision and decided on a limited release. T he film took in more than $1 million in a Christmas Day release in 331 mostly independent theatres after large movie theatre chains refused to screen the comedy following threats of violence from hackers. Keywords: Seth Rogen comedy, T he Interview, Sony Pictures, North Korea-U.S. net war, cancellation of screening, terror hack threats, Guardians of Peace, Kim Jong Un, U.S. censorship, North Korean regime, Barack Obama View comments (3) Post Comment RELATED NEWS North Korea hacked Sony: Obama DECEMBER 20, 2014 Sony hacking a serious security issue: U.S. DECEMBER 19, 2014 'The Interview' jeopardises overseas movie villains DECEMBER 19, 2014 Sony cancels 'The Interview' amid terror hack threats DECEMBER 18, 2014 Clooney slams Hollywood for not supporting Sony after hacks DECEMBER 19, 2014 North Korea calls for joint probe with U.S. into Sony hack DECEMBER 20, 2014 Obama says Sony hack act of cyber vandalism DECEMBER 21, 2014 Sony plans to release ‘The Interview’ DECEMBER 22, 2014 Sony removes The Interview from social media DECEMBER 22, 2014 Sony broadly releases 'The Interview' in reversal of plans DECEMBER 25, 2014 MORE IN: Int ernat ional | News | World Like Share 16 Tweet 0 0 Share MORE FROM THE HINDU UN chief urges Pak PM to stop executions Trisha gets engaged? 18/11/2014 SLIDESHOW Manorama death brutal torture: probe Use our professional PDF creation service at http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk! 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