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Blumenthal, Murphy: Time To Respond To N. Korea

Connecticut’s two U.S. senators called Monday for the Obama administration to respond — in an undefined way — to North Korea’s alleged hacking into Sony Pictures’ computer system and lethal threats against the airing of the movie The Interview.

The James Franco-Seth Rogen comedy (pictured) includes a fictionalized assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. North Korea apparently took the joke seriously.

President Obama has declared his intentions to respond in some way to the computer attack. U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal urged him on, when asked about the matter at an unrelated Monday press conference at New Haven’s Atwater Senior Center.

If North Korea is responsible, that is unacceptable,” Murphy said. I expect the Foreign Relations Committee will have meetings soon.”

He said the pattern of North Korea’s foreign policy is desperately to seek foreign attention. In that regard the U.S. needs to take care to keep a response proportionate, he said. This deserves a response proportional but that doesn’t reward North Korea by keeping them on the front pages, because that would reward them.”

At the same time, Blumenthal stressed the importance of the response serving as a message-sending to the world that two-bit terrorists won’t get a platform.”

The world, not just the U.S., has a role in preventing a rogue country like North Korea from terrorizing countries, Blumenthal added.

He said the response should not be military. It could possibly impact their cyber system,” he said. He also recommended putting North Korea back on the terrorist watch list.”

Although Sony has canceled its planned Christmas release of the film, one New York Times reviewer did see a preview. Here’s his take on the film that has caused an international incident.

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