Spy Chief Names North Korean Behind Hack

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has named the North Korean official who allegedly ordered the hacking attack on Sony Pictures, The Daily Beast’s M.L. Nestel reports. Clapper said at a cybersecurity conference in Manhattan that Gen. Kim Youn Chol, his counterpart in North Korea, must have ordered the cyberattack. Clapper said he met Kim during a tense 12-course meal in Pyongyang last year while he was retrieving two American prisoners. “Kim was a four-star general in charge of the Reconnaissance General Bureau. The RGB is the organization responsible with the overseeing attack against Sony.” Clapper added that the two got in a heated exchange that involved both men jabbing fingers into each other’s chests.