North Korea on Friday denied the FBI's accusation that it was behind a devastating hacking attack on Sony but it said the now-shelved film "The Interview" mocked the impoverished but nuclear-armed country.
"It defamed the image of our country. It made a mockery of our sovereignty. We reject it," a North Korean diplomat to the United Nations, Kim Song, told The Associated Press. "But there is no relation (to the hacking)."
The satirical film is about a plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un. Sony this week canceled its release after major U.S. theater chains decided not to show the movie amid threats of violence by the hackers.