US to review N Korea terror status: Obama
The United States is mulling whether or not to place North Korea back onto its list of state sponsors of terrorism President Barack Obama said in an interview aired yesterday following the communist nation's alleged cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
"We're going to review those through a process that's already in place," the president said in an pre-taped interview on CNN's "State of the Union."
"And we don't make those judgments just based on the news of the day. We look systematically at what's been done and based on those facts, we'll make those determinations in the future."
Obama added that North Korea's hack of Sony Pictures was an act of "cyber vandalism" and not an act of war.
"No, I don't think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously," Obama said in remarks released in advance.
Washington accuses Pyongyang of being behind a hacking at Sony which led to the release of embarrassing emails and caused executives to halt the release of the madcap comedy action film "The Interview."
The film about a fictional CIA plot to kill the country's leader infuriated North Korea.
Obama's remarks, in the interview which taped on Friday, followed a call from a leading US senator to re-consider North Korea's terror designation.
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