21 December 2014 (04:20 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Safar 1436/30 Azar 1393/30 Bing-Zi 4712

The threats made supposedly by Korean (north) hackers against Sony  were not threats against a U.S. corporation, despite such statements by U.S. news media and politicians.  Sony is Japanese.  Korea and Japan are mortal enemies.

In 1989 Japan’s Sony took over the U.S. movie companies Columbia and Tri-Star.   Sony renamed them Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1991.  In 2005 Sony took over iconic U.S. movie maker MGM.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is headquartered in California, but it is a Japanese company.  Sony Pictures’ computer  systems have routinely been hacked, so this latest hack job (and threats) should be of no surprise.  So why are the Japanese controlled U.S. executives of Sony Pictures pissing themselves, and why are so many U.S. ‘officials’ so concerned with protecting yet another foreign corporation?