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DPRK attacks film studio = sanctions, counterattack, TO WAR!

China attacks Github = nothing, silence, heads kept in sand.

The attack itself is irrelevant. The scale of response is only related, inversely related, to the political size of the attackers. Small countries and individuals are to be punished. Large countries holding billions of US debt are to be forgiven. The extent of damage done doesn't enter into the equation.

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The United States hacks and counterattacks China all of the time.

The reason for calling the DPRK's attack on the propaganda creation of the State Department 'cyberterrorism' and 'cyberwar' is that it aligns with US foreign policy (SK's official policy now is to pursue reunification).

NK is going down - China is more complicated. We do hack and counterattack China though, all the time.

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