The Chinese government issued an official statement on Monday saying that it condemns all form of cyber-attacks however they added that there is no hard evidence to support the claim of United States accusing North Korea responsible for hacking Sony Picture in what could be the company's biggest data leak to date.
North Korea has denied all the allegations being thrown by the United States and has promised to make a retaliatory action against the unproved accusations of the White House. The hackers who attacked the Sony servers claim that they were enraged about the comedy film that tackles the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. This statement led the United States government to accuse North Korea of its involvement in the cyber-attack.
Hua Chunying, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman said: "Before making any conclusions there has to be a full (accounting of) the facts and foundation. China will handle it in accordance with relevant international and Chinese laws according to the facts."
Up to the present time, China is the only major ally of North Korea; this means that China holds critical role the United States' efforts to crack down the hermetic state. However, U.S. has also accused China of cyber espionage. Additionally, a high U.S. official stated that the origins of the Sony attack can be traced back to Chinese servers. To make matters worse, South Korea who is still at war with North Korea, released an official statement saying that one of its nuclear plant computers was attacked, fortunately no data of utmost significant was stolen or damaged.
With the tension increasing every second, a lot is being at put at stake with every nations move. It was recently reported that North Korea has already turned down the United Nations Security Council inquiry on the current human rights situation inside the secretive state. North Korea claimed that the investigation was instigated by the United States in order to overthrow the current regime headed by Kim Jong-un.
