joining us, david rothcough, editor of foreign policy magazine and chief correspondent jim sciutto.ernor richardson, i know you've been there several times to north korea. let me play a little clip. this is josh earnest the white house press secretary only moments ago, speaking about what this means, the cyber attack, that cnn is reporting the u.s. government believes north korea being responsible for it. what it means as far as the u.s. is concerned. listen to this. >> back on north korea. you're calling it a national security matter. does that mean you don't skr it a national security threat? in other words, there might be other attacks coming? >> we have seen -- let me actually step back and say, i know you refer to it as the north korea matter, that's the way it's been widely reported. i'm not in the position to confirming any atrybution at this point. as a general matter the president does view some of the attacks that we have seen in recent years, as a threat to our national security and there is -- there has been an effort under way throughout the president's first six years

. >> david rothcough, we saw last year a crude bomb put in a backpack shut down one of america's greata week. this morning, this news, again, knocking most news off of the front pages of all newspapers across the globe. what is it about these type of events that attract such attention? >> look, there's human drama at the center of it. it's a story you can hardly look away from. i think that's what the terrorists, whomover is behind this, are playing exactly to. there's a human climate deal over the weekend. the russian ruble has followfol fallen by half. situation's not going well in libya. there are a lot of big issues in the world right now. and one guy armed with, as noted here earlier, an assault rifle and ipad, can go in and change the focus of the world. i think those are the tools. that's the tool of the new breed of terrorist. an assault rifle, an ipad and one guy who can grab our attention because we know what kind of story we all turn to. >> we know he has a history. >> he has a history. mika, we were talking before about how after 9/11 how it wasn't nation states that would