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Communicate and insight and encourage and use propaganda and c.i.a. and our other intelligence agencies need to master that domain as a way to protect the american people. >> speaking of mastering that the domain was the united states behind the internet outage in north korea in december after the hacking of sony. >> north korean system is fruit with a number of challenges because it is a country that unfortunately has put its pursuit of military capabilities in front of the interests much the p...

Physical domain, aviation, but the digital domain has continued to grow and evolve. that digital domain is going to be used by terrorist groups and others, proliferators to be able to communicate, to be able to incite, encourage, use propaganda and communicate. we really need to master that domain as a way to protect the american people. >> speaking of mastering that domain, was the u.s. behind the massive internet outage in north korea after the hacking of sony? >> the north korea system is fra...

I dont think they are accomplices, but the internet system with north korea goes through china. we have often asked china for help in dealing with north korea in curbing the nuclear weapons. china i dont think is willing to help us. not wanting to help us. thats unfortunate. they could be helpful to stabilize the situation in the korean peninsula. >> former new mexico governor good to have your insights on this. thank you very much. >> sticking with the fallout from the interview if there is a b...

Cult of personality, everything involves around the leader and a cult of personality that affects every action they take. >> ambassador, let me ask you how much you think that north koreans, ordinary north koreans know about this overall situation, the rhetoric and the interview and the fallout and all of this stuff. it is an isolated kingdom cutoff from the outside world, but how much do you think they are aware of all of this? they probably know very little and only what the government feeds t...

Finance, communications, power, aerospace and defense. i think the united states needs to respond more than pro-partially as president obama said. i think we need to be thinking about creating structures of deterrence not just against north korea. >> what do you suggest? >> the case of north korea we have apparently already disrupted what passes for their internet system. its laughably small. i think its -- north koreas is engaged in a symmetric warfare against us. we need to turn the tables on ...

Could happen in our national internet system went down. i think its typical of north koreas belligerent behavior. they will push until they see real push back, and thats part of the game that they are playing. >> what should we do ignore them and put them on the state sponsored terrorism list again? because bringing down their internet if we did that is pretty meaningless about. five people are on the internet. that doesnt mean anything. what should we do? >> remember, it was not their governmen...

Fortunate. her way of thanking the people of boston, particularly brookline for embracing her family. that is lovely. >> thats the good stuff. thats what that is. >> theyre important inflection points, the news is so predominantly heavy. its always questioning humanity and you see the best is out there as well. >> thanks so much, christine. the relationship between the u.s. and north korea getting more frosty, if you can believe it. cnn has learned the pentagon beefing up its cyberdefense to gua...

>> how can kim resist? analysts say even from north koreas elite, having access to the internet is a mixed blessing. often when top north korean officials go online, every point and click is monitored by the security apparatus. wolf? >> given what we know about north koreas internet system, what are you hearing about what caused the blackouts yesterday and partially today? >> one analyst, wolf, who monitors internet traffic, believes there are three possible scenarios. he says the north korean g...

Could happen in our national internet system went down. i think its typical of north koreas belligerent behavior. they will push until they see real push back, and thats part of the game that they are playing. >> what should we do ignore them and put them on the state sponsored terrorism list again? because bringing down their internet if we did that is pretty meaningless about. five people are on the internet. that doesnt mean anything. what should we do? >> remember, it was not their governmen...

Breaking news in new york city where the mayor, bill de blasio, is asking people to put aside protests until after the funerals of the two police officers who were brutally killed over the weekend. but were also following reports that north koreas internet system all of a sudden collapsed today. the reports come as the state department put new pressure on north korea to admit that it was behind the cyber attack on sony pictures. lets bring in our global affairs correspondent, elise labott, whos ...