North Korea versus Sony Pictures affair; Attacks of this kind have the strong tendency to go outside the business arena and involve political echelons and governments
Cyberspace Extortion: North Korea versus the United States
The announcement by Sony Pictures that it would not release The Interview for screening in major US theaters as planned was the culmination of a series of events that featured elements of cyber warfare and psychological warfare, and threatened to spill over into physical terrorism. The incident occurred where the worlds of policy and of culture converge, namely, politics. The implication of this extraordinary affair goes far beyond a North Korean conflict with Sony and the United States; it even goes beyond economics, though the wave of attacks caused the Sony Corporation tremendous financial losses in addition to the direct damage resulting from the decision not to distribute the movie. At stake is a fundamental value of the West in general and the United States in particular – the right of free speech.
