that will, predictably, be poo-pooed by the US. The US reserves the right to strike back "...in a place and manner and time..." against an unproven offender because that 'offender' hacked into the database of a Japanese corporation. Somehow, the nincompoops in DC take this as a personal insult.
Wow! We are, indeed, the world's policeman.

HQ is in Culver City, California. CEO and Co-Chairs are Americans.

Toyota Motor North America is also an 'American Company' but it's still Toyota and Toyota is still a Japanese Company. You are just splitting hairs. It's Sony.

An attack on Toyota Motor North America would similarly be an attack on an American company.

Especially if all communication from the American leaders of that company were hacked as was the case here.

Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics, Sony Music, and the rest of "Sony Group" companies. Sony is not an "American company" and neither is "Sony Pictures Entertainment".

That's just like saying because Toyota has a manufacturing plant and "U.S. headquarters" in Texas headed up by Americans, that it's suddenly not a Japanese company.

Alternately, Ford has a plant in Hiroshima headed up by Japanese, so you know, Ford is a "Japanese company" right?

It is a subsidiary - i.e. a company controlled by a holding company.

There is no Japanese subsidiary company of Ford Motors.

I got a solution for corporstions in America, fix your fucking Internet securitu.....how many hacks into corporstions in America this year.....hundreds?

a pretty sizable conventional arsenal lined up on Seoul. (*Iraq during the initial ground invasion. Iraq proved itself no pushover durign the Occupation that followed.)

Were I the U.S. government, I'd cool it with the sabre-rattling.

My Dad fought with the Marines at Inchon and he says the North Korean soldiers are tough fighters. Coming from an ex-Jarhead, that's mighty high praise.

We shouldn't negotiate with a guy who only has his job due to nepotism and picking the right womb.

Tens of millions have had their bank accounts put at risk by international hacks and there is little national concern.

One movie maker (confession: I'm outside the target demographic for that comedy) gets it's records put at risk and the nation calls for war.

Whut?

That's just hilarious.

perhaps we've moved beyond such.

In all fairness , other than the FBI, do we REALLY have any proof ?

And who the hell believes the FBI?

Can you give me a sense of what you would need to see or hear to prove that they were behind it?

...except that this is N Korea, so it throws my general approval for relationship building between people and among peoples into confusion.

Usually their bluster lathers itself up to the general realm of "we will reduce you to your constituent molecules and then stab them each in the face!" so hey, this is pleasantly restrained for once.

and Ted Cruz and be done with them.

I'm sure we can find a few more to give them. How about Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, John Bohner, Marco Rubio, Justin Bieber, Joni Ernst, and the entire family of Mitt Romney.

Or does the hack start in the USA local and is more of a leak, not secure computers or another of the thousands of NSA employees who has access to anything they want?

South Korea (where I am) would not support any infrastructure). Russia had backed away from North Korea for quite awhile and is just now strengthening their relationship with them so that is doubtful.

As in "we'll shoot or starve a bunch of our own people, bury them and blame it on you!" consequences?

Really? A hacking group that sounds like a hollywood movie issued a vague threat and all of a sudden the FBI has evidence?
Im calling B/S on this one.
That bloody GOP (Guardians of peace) is at it again.

If they can hack a movie studio and release a Brad Pitt movie early, there is no limit to their power!

Ugh, we need to humiliate this fucker in spectacular (but cool, nonviolent) fashion.