North Korea’s state-run news agency denied on Sunday that it was involved in a hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, but praised the cyber takedown as a “righteous deed.”
“The hacking into the Sony Pictures might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathisers with the (North) in response to its appeal,” the North’s top military body, the National Defence Commission, told the state-run KCNA news agency, according to the Agence France Presse.
The NDC rejected the media reports of its involvement as “false rumour” but went on to slam Sony for producing “The Interview,” a comedy about two journalists trying to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.