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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 people. there is an infrastructure that has challenges technically and there are a lot of reasons why...

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 fraught with a number of challenges because it is a country that unfortunately has put its pursuit of m...

I don't 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 don't think is willing to help us. not wanting to help us. that's 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 bright spot in the sony hack, the first good news for sony pictures in weeks is the successful if ...

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 them. every three hours every evening, the government has news programs that basically describe every...

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. it's laughably small. i think it's -- north koreas is engaged in a symmetric warfare against us. we need to turn the tables on them. put them back on the list of state terrorists, really enforce the existing financial sanctio...