President Obama while on vacation in the Hawaiian Islands has issued an executive order to intensify its previous statement about the alleged North Korean cyber-attack on Sony Pictures promising that he will levy a "proportional response" against the perpetrators of the cyber-attack. The reported executive order imposes economic sanctions on 10 high ranking officials in the North Korean government as well as its intelligence agency claiming that the agency is the main source of "many of North Korea's major cyber operations."

The executive order was announced on Friday; however US officials said that the 10 North Korean officials were fairly just representatives to foreign states and may have no direct participation in the cyber-attack that toppled Sony Pictures computer network and servers. Additional reports show that the 10 officials are more likely to be connected to North Korea's attempt in the trade of missiles and other weapons. Two of the cited officials are representative to Iran, a state known to be a major purchaser of North Korea's military arsenal. Five others are North Korean representatives to the states of Syria, Russia, China and Namibia, all prominent states in terms of arms and military race.

According to the administrations official statements, the sanctions are part of the United States crackdown against those who attack the Sony Pictures computers; they've also added that a covert operation will also be commissioned to aid the ongoing crackdown. However, when asked whether the United States has any sort of involvement during the massive internet black in North Korea just weeks ago, the officials merely eluded the issue. 

Cyber security experts however were not as keen in pointing the blame of Sony attack to North Korea. Some cyber security firms even say that the American intelligence department might be eager to find fault in its longtime adversary that they we're duped by the original hackers who obviously has some great skills in hiding their tracks.