UNITED STATES.- The incident between North Korea and Sony over the last few weeks, all thanks to "The Interview" movie, has made President Barack Obama to intervene with further punishments against de hermit reign of Kim Jong-Un.
The U.S Treasury Department announced that Obama signed new measures against three companies and ten government officials of the North Korean country, including individuas who work in Iran, Syria, China, Russia and Namibia.
None of said punishments have possibility of truly harming North Korea, given that since 1950, the United States and North Korea do not maintain any formal diplomatic or economic relation , which is why these new punishments from the first country to the second will have a minor impact.
However, the U.S. promises that these are just the first of the new punishments, focused to make life harder for these people, their friends, family and anyone involved with the following Korean companies:
Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation, a mining company that commercializes and exports equipment for ballistic missiles and convention weapons, according to AP.
The second company is Korea Tangun Trading Corporation, which obtains technology for defense investigation of the country.
And lastly, Reconnaissance General Bureau, the country´s
main intelligence agency, and the probable leader of the cyber attacks against Sony .
It goes to show how a film can worsen any peace attempt between old enemies.
With information from Reuters.
Source: "The Bigstory."
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