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Have you ever been in an earthquake?\u00a0 Where were you and what happened?<\/p>\n

Finger Pointing
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At the close of 2014 that was a lot of finger pointing back and forth between North Korea and the United States of America.\u00a0 Conflict between the two nations began at least 70 years ago but the close of 2014 brought a flurry of finger pointing.\u00a0 It began in late November with the hack of Sony Pictures’ computer systems.\u00a0 In the days following, evidence surfaced that the attack originated in North Korea, likely in retaliation to Sony preparing to release a comedic movie called The Interview<\/em> about assassinating North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. North Korean officials deny their country is responsible but the FBI says North Korea is the culprit.<\/p>\n

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Hackers next told Sony to stop the “movie of terrorism” and threatened terror attacks against people who see The Interview<\/em> in theaters.\u00a0 In response major theater chains cancelled plans to show the movie and Sony officially canceled the movie’s release.\u00a0 President Obama criticized Sony for failing to consult the White House in deciding to censor the movie but later applauded when the movie was released on Christmas Day in theaters and online.<\/p>\n

Starting Christmas Eve, Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live networks experienced multi-day outage via denial-of-service attacks.\u00a0\u00a0 FBI investigating is where or not North Korea is involved.<\/p>\n

On December 22nd<\/sup> and 28th<\/sup> North Korea suffered a nationwide internet and 3G mobile phone networks outages.\u00a0 In response North Korea blames the US for engineering the outages and said, “Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest”.\u00a0 US officials have not commented on whether they had a role in the outages and refuse to respond to avoid provoking a response from North Korea.<\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n