response from the united states to north korea east s hacking of sony. president obama ordered further sanctions on the country. libby casey joining us live from the white house and there were already sanctions in place over north korea s nuclear program. what are these new sanctions? reporter: tony this is stepping it up in direct response for the cyber attack on sony. three entities within north korea getting these sanctions. one is the intelligence gather gathering arm, research and defense, and the third is the ballistic arms and conventional weapon s dealer for north korea. within the north korean government. now there are ten individuals that will also feel sanctions and this is new. while they have had sanctions in the past the individuals haven t, and nine are affiliated with the ballistic missiles aspect of. officials don t know at this point if those ten individuals have assets in the u.s., but now companies can scour their records, find out if they do freeze them