HONOLULU — Opening a new front in its cyber spat with North Korea, the United States slapped new sanctions yesterday on government officials and the North's defense industry in its first public act of retribution for a cyberattack against Sony.
Despite lingering doubts in the cyber community, the U.S. insisted that North Korea was to blame and the White House warned that this was just the opening salvo in the U.S. response.
While the fresh sanctions will have limited effect, American officials portrayed the move as a swift and decisive response to North Korean behavior they said had gone far over the line. Never before has the U.S. imposed sanctions on another nation in direct retaliation for a cyberattack on an American company.
"The order is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the government of North Korea and its activities that threaten the United States and others," President Obama wrote in a letter to House and Senate leaders.
The 10 North Koreans singled out for sanctions didn't necessarily have anything to do with the attack on Sony, senior U.S. officials said. Anyone who works for or helps North Korea's government is now fair game, said the officials.
The sanctions also apply to three organizations closely tied to North Korea's government: the country's primary intelligence agency, a state-owned arms dealer that exports missile and weapons technology, and the Korea Tangun Trading Corp., which supports defense research. All three of those entities were already subject to U.S. sanctions, so yesterday's move against those groups appeared primarily symbolic.
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