A long and rambling statement from Pyongyang threatens “counteraction” against the White House, the Pentagon, and “the whole U.S. mainland.”
REUTERS KCNA
In a long and rambling statement from the North Korea's Policy Department of the National Defense Commission, a group chaired by the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang warned it is prepared to "blow up [American] citadels."
"Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole U.S. mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the 'symmetric counteraction' declared by Obama," the statement read.
Pyongyang rejected the FBI's assertion that North Korea was behind the Sony cyberattack, which President Barack Obama referred to on Sunday morning as an act of "cybervandalism" and not war.
Pyongyang again repeated its contention that it is not connected to the "Guardians of Peace" group, which has claimed responsibility for the attack.
However, it later said that Sony had been in its sights: "Nothing is more serious miscalculation than guessing that just a single movie production company is the target of this counteraction. Our target is all the citadels of the U.S. imperialists who earned the bitterest grudge of all Koreans."
A South Korean army soldier walks near a TV screen showing an advertisement of Sony Pictures' The Interview at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 22.
AP Ahn Young-joon
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