so you really begin to wrap your head around the clues and motivations behind this horrific attack. back to you. the united states is turning to china for help dealing with cyberattacks like the one that hit sony pictures. that attack which the u.s. blames on north korea prompted the studio to stop the release of its satirical film called the interview. the movie depicts the assassination of north korea s leader. north korea insists it was not behind the cyberattack. as kyung lah reports for us, now pyongyang is warning of serious consequences if the u.s. retaliates. reporter: just hours after president obama lands in hawaii for the christmas holiday the regime lashes out via its state-run television. with all of its usual bluster the regime slams the u.s. government s investigation of the sony hack as childish.
mutual investigation, and continues to blame north korea for the computer attack on sony pictures. that attack resulted in the release of a private company s information and emails that toledo the cancellation of the release of a movie about an sasse destination plot on north korean leader kim jong-un. despite north korea s formal denial the fbi is fairly convinced that the sony attack started. so who in north korea is savvy enough, well trained enough to set something so destructively loose or so destructive loose on the world. people who studied kim jong-un are pretty sure they know. we go to soul for more. reporter: north korean soldiers, a technicolor force against the west. on state-run television a ridiculous bravado of the military. but there are unseen soldiers in kim jong-un s cyber war against
think of them is exactly that. they are a secret army, their battleground is cyber space. they are placed around the world. we don t know the exact number. but they have one common goal attack western interests. a force against the west. on state-run television, a near ridiculous bravado of the military. but there are unseen soldiers in kim jong un soldiers, and they have no face but only known as bureau 121. what is bureau 121? translator: they conduct the cyber attacks over enemy seas and states. jong is a north korean director. a former computer systems worker now in south korea, attempting to crumble an agency nearly impossible to chase.
to be behind all of this. yeah. and it s believed the cyberwarriors have struck before. a north korean defector gaving us a glimpse inside the secret world of north korean s hackers. they are shadow warriors, battleground cyberspace. they re placed around the world with one sole mission, hack into and disrupt u.s. interests. a force against the west. on state-run television, a near ridiculous bravado of the military, but there are unseen soldiers in kim jong un s cyberwar against the west. they have no face and only known by a number, bureau 121. what is bureau 121? they conduct the cyberattacks against overseas and enemy states, says this man. jong is a north korean defector,
korea is responsible for the crippling attack on sony pictures, there s increasing focus on a mysterious unit called bureau 121. experts say north korea withheld resources from its own citizens to build up this unit to carry out cyberattacks. for morors let s get to kyung lah live from seoul. what do we know, kyung? well alisyn, think of them as the shadow warriors, and their battleground is cyberspace, they re placed around the world, taking their orders from pyongyang, with one common goal these warriors aim to disrupt western interests. north korean soldiers, a technicolor parading force against the west. on state-run television a near ridiculous bravado of the military. but there are unseen soldiers in kim jong-un s cyberwar versus the west. they have no face, and only known by a number, bureau 121.