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Farther going to try to go in their response to this because they have to respond. >> yeah. you would think so. were going to talk about that in a bit. evan perez, thanks so much. were also learning new information about the group of hackers believed to have carried out that attack. its called bureau 121. their target is foreign countries. a north korean defector tells cnn that the group of cyberwarriors is handpicked by the north korean regime and placed in different places around the world. ...

Its unit 121. >> what the heck is unit 121? >> its something north korea has been attack south korea cyber wise. >> here is what i would do, jim comey, the present director of the f.b.i., knows this better than i. there is a half dozen super hackers in federal prison for what they did here. i would go to the best two or three of them and say, you find these guys, youre getting out of jail. >> maybe they already have. >> reverse engineer their hack, lead us to them and youre home free. >> youve g...

Merry christmas. happy holidays. >> there it is. thanks. time to go to shepherd smith reporting live from the fox news desk. >> north koreas population is obviously poor and starving, but its government has reportedly poured money into a seeber warfare department that they call unit 121. sources are now telling fox news its that group that is apparently behind this sony attack, an attack that may be the most damaging err level against an american business. just how dangerous is this unit 121? ...

Cyber attack. you could call it cyber terrorism especially with the threat made by the hackers not just at sony but at movie theaters across the country. its a very serious national security issue. i dont know that the u.s. government wants to cast it in those terms as starkly as possible but they dont want people to be upset or people to be fearful. but it is very, very serious and its just really the first one that were paying attention to. >> so far though when you look at what the administra...

Was directly responsible for this cyber attack against sony pictures. >> thats right, wolf. nothing happens out of north korea without the leadership of that country knowing it. so thats one reason why u.s. investigators believe that this was ordered from up top. we expect there could be an announcement as soon as tomorrow about attribution of this hack, and one of the things theyre looking at is what to do about it, what the u.s. governments response can be. because once you accuse a country of...

Could be -- that have a history resorting to violence, youre not going to be make movies about a lot of subjects. north korea is an undercovered subject that we need to know more about. the idea that you cant make a movie about north korea after this is tragic. >> its not just movies. were not just talking about movies. were talking about any kind of coverage or mention of north korea. books, newspapers, cable news. we are all at risk from these sorts of threats. >> guying, stand by. ed royce is...

Information about this particular bureau, 121. so i think were awaiting the normal announcement by the u.s. government, but its career that north korea did this and its clear that north korea has used its hackers to attempt to get information about our energy grid and other targets. >> so youre worried, i just want to be precise, that north korea would have the capability of what, damaging, destroying, undermining the energy grid of the united states? >> theres two things im worried about. the f...

Thats the decision you have in a case like this, do you name names now and maybe they find other things to do, or prolong the investigation long enough to prevent this from happening. >> theyve been working on this for some time, the fbi and u.s. government, every agency, intelligence agency, has been on this, wolf, because this is a big deal. this is being handled by the justice departments national security division, which tells you this is a serious national security issue for the united stat...

Hackers in north korea that presumably will be directly blamed. we heard chairman ed royce say that this group, what is a task force -- >> its called bureau 121, wolf. this is unprecedented for the government to work this fast. this is something thats being handled, as family has been reporting, by the justice department, which tells you they view this as a national security measure. its not very often that they work through these cases very quickly like this. but this took a high priority becau...

Over. the the toll, you mentioned it, harris, 141 killed, most of them chirp. there were some teachers killed as well. were also told 121 children were injured, many badly. the hospitals are overflowing and, of course, that city overflowing with grieving parents. one more note about the attack, the school picked mostly because of children of the military army staff. and one further note, mentioning the u.s. connection, the pakistani taliban is an enemy of the united states. it backs up and is ti...