{"id":341147,"date":"2017-12-26T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-cyber-attack-claim-baseless-provocation\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:04:48","slug":"presstv-us-cyber-attack-claim-baseless-provocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-cyber-attack-claim-baseless-provocation\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;US cyber attack claim baseless provocation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>North Korea has called on the US to provide evidence on its claim that Pyongyang was behind a massive cyber attack earlier this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s UN envoy in charge of US affairs, Pak Song-il, said the allegation was a \u201cbaseless provocation\u201d used to generate tensions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they are so sure, show us the evidence,&#8221; he told <em>The Associated Press<\/em> in a telephone interview from New York late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Pyongyang sees the allegation as an effort to create an &#8220;extremely confrontational atmosphere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the\u00a0administration of US President Donald Trump blamed North Korea for spreading the so-called &#8220;WannaCry&#8221; cyber attack that impaired hospitals, banks and other companies worldwide in early 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, a third of Britain\u2019s public hospitals were affected by the WannaCry virus, which spread through devices across the world and locked them in exchange for cash.<\/p>\n<p>The ransomware attack hit up to 300,000 computers in 150&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/26\/546882\/North-Korea-calls-on-US-to-prove-ransomware-claim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has called on the US to provide evidence on its claim that Pyongyang was behind a massive cyber attack earlier this year. North Korea\u2019s UN envoy in charge of US affairs, Pak Song-il, said the allegation was a \u201cbaseless provocation\u201d used to generate tensions. &#8220;If they are so sure, show us the evidence,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}