paula hancocks for us in indonesia. thank you. >> what was the weather when the plane lost contact with the ground? we have cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri who takes a look at the weather search and rescue and the weather the teams are up against. >> the weather across the java sea finally innmproving. there are storms in the area at the last known point with the aircraft. to the north, partly cloudy. to the south, similar story. when you talk about an area in the wet season december is the wettest time of year. you know storms are blossoming in the next couple days. tuesday into wednesday, storms develop again toward the last point known of contact region. that is where we think more strong storms and gusty winds and reduced visibility is something to be worth noting in the next couple of days. good news is when you take a look at the surface temperatures at java sea, 82 degrees favorite. survival in the waters is a possibility, but the longer time passes the more unlikely scenario that becomes. back to you. >> pedra

our paula hancocks is joining us from the staging area in indonesia. tell us what is happening there, paula. >> reporter: christine, we have over the past couple of hours seen things winding down for the day at this particular staging area. as andrew says we are running out of daylight. the ships will be staying out on the java sea. they can use spotlights and potentially sonar and try to continue with that search. it is still a very large search area. we spoke to the head of the search and rescue operation here on the island. he said it is 240 by 240 nautical miles. this is one of the islands that is closest to the last point of contact of that airline. this is where they are basing their search. he said they have not narrowed it down yet. they don't have the data to be able to do that. as soon as they have data they can look at a specific location. at this point they can't. because there are so many boats and ships and helicopters, they have to cordon this off carefully. they have to narrow it down and sliced it up into sections to make sure that they

paula hancocks there on the spot for us. 'll check in with you later, paula, thanks. >> they're set up to get as many aircraft out, as soon as possible. the one thing that i'm interested to know and we'll see if we can get paula back is how long they're able to stay out there. we know time is of the essence. >> it is. and even though it's nowhere near the search area of mh370, it's still a lot of area to cover and having seen that search up close personally. it's so difficult, you're scanning just endless, endless ocean, to see any little speck of something. it's very hard on the eyes. requires a lot of concentration. as you reported in our coverage of mh 370, people in the aircraft are in for long hours of just staring and there's so much floating on the surface of the sea that you never think about. >> including white caps which brings us to weather. we know it could have played a role in this incident perhaps. we're joined by pedram for that. tell us about what this plane was facing on the flight and also what the searcher

so they really don't know at this point what they're going to find. >> paula hancocks joining us on the indonesia. paula, we appreciate it. we'll continue to check in with you. thanks so much. she makes a point. they're prepared for either turn of events. >> exactly. as you said shallow water, heavily trafficked area the feeling is they're going to find the plane. >> yeah this is the thing that we want to keep pointing out. i know immediately people want to jump to the conclusion that this is just like mh370 but nothing like it. we're talking about very different conditions. we'll continue to follow this breaking story. after a short break, we'll be right back. stay with us. >> welcome back everyone to cnn's continuing coverage of the search for that air asia flight 8501 ships, planes and helicopters are searching a broad area for some sign of that flight. the chief of indonesia's search and rescue say his early assumption is that the plane is at the bottom of the sea. >> they lost contact with the plane about 24 hours ago. one of the pilots had asked to fly at a higher altitude because

i want to bring in cnn's paula hancocks with more information. paula, what can you tell us? >> well, just looking through that statement that you referenced just a moment ago just to put this into perspective to give the timings of what happened and what we actually know at this point. so 7:24 a.m. local time just over five hours ago is when the plane lost contact. now we understand from this statement that the air craft was in the indonesian flight information region. at that point you'd assume that indonesian air space. it did take until 7:54 a.m. 24 minutes until they contacted the singapore air traffic control. that's when they were notified. so they were in the indonesian air traffic control earlier. it took 20 minutes before they contacted singapore. now this flight should have taken under two hours. i understand it's about one hour, 50 minutes usually. it's flights northwest from indonesia up to singapore. it should have landed at around about 8:30 a.m. local time. now that's about four hours ago, more than four hours ago. as time goes on there are further concerns ab

paula hancocks for us. thank you, paula. despite the negative reviews, the film has been selling out in its limited run in theaters in the u.s. it earned $1 million christmas day playing in 300 u.s. theaters. it was to be in 2,000 theaters. sales figures are not in yet. one internet blog says "the interview" has been shared illegally about 750,000 times. >>> the fbi is not commenting on report that is north korea probably was not behind the hack on sony pictures. here is cnns brian todd with that part of the story. >> reporter: the forensic trail of the sony hack is mysterious, difficult to follow and now is sparking increasing doubt over the fbis belief that hackers working for north korea is responsible. >> it's clear to us based on forensic and other evidence we have collected that unequivocally they are not responsible for orchestrating or initiating the attack on sony. >> reporter: his cyber security firm did an investigation on the hack. norse and cloudflare said the malware used is similar to malware used in similar a

. >> let's go to cnn's paula hancocks. she has arrived in indonesia where many search efforts are under way. what can you tell us about the it search there and whether they are searching in the water and on any possible land. there are some people that believe that this plane could have landed somehow or gone down on one of the many many islands there in that region paula. >> reporter: i spoke to the first marshal in charge of the search and rescue operation here on the islands, and this has really become a staging area for many of these helicopters coming in. and he basically said i asked him if there could be survivors from this plane incident. and he said at this point, he believes if it landed in the water it is very unlikely that anyone survived. but he said it is still a possibility that the plane may have crashed on land. it may have crashed on an island to the east of here. and so certainly, he said they are not ruling anything out at this point. they still have a very wide search area 240 or 240 nautical miles. it

which tried to stop the film, has issued a statement denouncing the release of the interview" and paula hancocks joins us now live from seoul, south korea with more about what they had to say. paula? >> well, natalie, we know that pyongyang was not going to be happy with the fact this movie went ahead and did air. certainly we're hearing that today from the statements from state run media. it originated from the all powerful national defense commission. this is a very powerful institution in north korea showing just how seriously pyongyang takes the fact that the interview" went ahead and was released. now they're blaming not only sony pictures for the release of this movie but also the u.s. president barack obama singling him out for criticism saying that heectively bullied the cinemas into releasing this movie. let's read some of that statement. it says "u.s. president obama is the chief culprit who forced the sony pictures entertainment to the indiscriminately distribute the movie and took the lead in apiecing and blackmailing sinna ma houses and theaters in the u.s. mainland to distribute th

let's go to cnn's paula hancocks who is in borneo. paula?reporter: jake this is the first-stop hospitals for the victims on the west coast of borneo. we have just received two more bodies here. sirens signaling the two ambulances arriving that were red cross and hospital workers waiting with gurneys. the two body bags were then rushed into a special wing of this hospital to be treated and also identified. the hospital director tells us that what they're doing is trying to give the initial identification to figure out the gender the height and any identifying marks and facial recognition who can tell you who the passengers and crew are. we know the families have already given up-to-date photos of their loved ones exactly for this purpose. the weather is in part of that. we've had high waves and also high winds which obviously makes things very difficult for the divers and little visibility and also for the ships and the aerial support in the area. the concern, of course is the next couple of days could be just as bad. jake? >> paula hancocks

let's go now to paula hancocks. she joins us from indonesia where some of the searches are being launched from. and what are you being told about how it's going to be conducted? >> caller: well just in the last half hour we've seen one of the indonesian helicopters take off. this airport here is really where some of the military and search and rescue helicopters are coming to refuel. so it's becoming a staging area. this island north of the capital, jakarta. and it's the island that is believed to be the closest to where the airline lost contact with the officials. so it's believed to be close to where this airline could be at this point. now obviously, the pilots on board are desperately trying to find any sign of this plane. one of them did tell me that they simply didn't really know if they were looking in the right place. in the moment they're heading north-northwest of here towards singapore which is where this aircraft was heading to when it went missing. the most important thing is at this point, is to get as

. >> cnn's paula hancocks is live with the latest. what do they know paula?rter: well carol, at this point they're saying that the focus is on finding the passengers and the crew. ten bodies we understand at this point have been retrieved, and we know that two of them have already come through here. we are in kalimantan on the west coast, about 110 nautical miles away from the crash site where the bodies are brought first, treated and prepared and then they basically have the initial identification here before being sent to surabaya and the families. you saw the two coffins arriving earlier today. we understand there are obviously more bodies that will be coming here in the near future. now what they do here is they basically treat the body and they also try and make some kind of identification for example, how tall the person is whether they're male, female any identitying marks, any visual identification they can give. remember the families themselves were asked for recent photos they were asked for any details that could help the identification and then al

paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. >> thank you very much.pert for dell security works, a dell subsidiary based here in atlanta. first, with welcome. then your reaction to this new take that north korea had nothing to do with the hack? >> well, i'm not personally or professionally in a position to speculate exactly on the attribution, but you're right there's a lot of controversy in the security community about the attribution that's been put out there. internet response and digital forensics attribution is one of the most difficult things that we do. there's obviously evidence that the united states government does not want to release due to protecting their own sources and methods, you know, what has been released does have some connections to prior attacks that have been allegedly attributed to north korea, so there's some overlap there, but there's valid concerns being raised in the community and the skeptical feedback that's out there. >> i want to talk to you about the other hack that's now occurred and this is the one that's impacting

and our paula hancocks has the latest from there. >> reporter: this is the first-stop hospital for the victims of the airasia crash on the west coast of borneo. overnight on wednesday, two more bodies were brought to this hospital. sirens announced their arrival and red cross and hospital workers were waiting with gurneys for two ambulances. they were then rushed into a special wing that's in this hospital where hospital workers were waiting to treat the bodies and also to carry out the initial identification. what they'll be doing is they'll be trying to look for identifying marks for height gender facial recognition, anything that could tell them who these victims are. the families had been asked to give these kind of details, to give up-to-date photos just for this eventuality. the bodies are then prepared and placed in a casket. then it will be flown to surabaya and for formal identification by the family. the process of retrieving these bodies appears to be very slow in part because of the weather. there has been heavy rain at the site of the crash and in the nearby locations. the

. >> let's go to cnn's paula hancocks. she joins us from nooetsz where some of the operations are being launched. for now they say it is under the sea, has that refocused the search efforts? >> reporter: i just spoke to the first marshal in charge of the operation here on this island. and he said at this stage they haven't managed to narrow down the search. he basically said it is still very random. he gave us an area that is being looked at at this point, 240 by 240 nautical miles, so an immense area. it is being cordoned off to make sure that they don't miss any areas. there's also 12 different sections sorry, five by air, 12 by sea and three by land. and now with the null of ships, helicopters and planes has increased significantly, we have the latest figures here. there's more than a dozen ships out there at this point in the java sea trying to find any indication of this plane. it's just from the indonesian side. we also know that malaysia and singapore have given assets to try and help this search. australia and sout

>> paula hancocks reporting live for us this morning. i appreciate it. the search for flight 8501 with peter goals, a former ntsb managing director. i'll also joined by former inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation mary schiavo. good morning to both of you. peter, an official says sonar may have detected the plane's wreckage but there's been no confirmation the plane has been found. how close are they do you think? >> well i think the indonesians have done an outstanding job in pinpointing the crash site. i mean, they obviously had good radar information, they've sent their assets to the right location. it's going to take a little time to zero in on the wreckage because the sonar as we saw in flight 370, you pick up false signals. but i think they're getting to it. they'll get to it fairly quickly. we're on the final days of this terrible tragedy. >> mary we know there's terrible weather out there. it's monsoon season it's supposed to rain into friday. will that change the location of the wreckage much? >> it won't change the location

paula hancocks, cnn, indonesia. >> our thanks to paula. and it's not just the locals searching, a handful of countries. china, france malaysia australia, the united states, the uss sampson is in the java sea. and a second ship will join, as well. but how difficult will it be to recover this? walk us through what we can expect. >> well, the first thing you can expect is fairly favorable conditions. and by that this location where the debris has been spotted here is only about 100 miles offshore here. it is in an area that is generally shallow, 131 feet is the average. the area we're talking about is more like here about 100 feet down. that's all promising. now, that said don't forget that any kind of operation under water like this is always challenge ing challenging. at this level, you can have divers that could reach down to the bottom and help in the search for the flight data recorder the voice recorder, for big pieces like engines, things like that certainly, it's much easier to put a sonar array out there to catch the pinging off the

let's go to cnn's paula hancocks. she joins us now from seoul. paula, what more can you tell us?a, details are fairly scarce at this point, obviously. airasia is desperately trying to find out what has happened to this flight. they haven't given us many details, as they're clearly unable to. all they can confirm is the fact that this flight from surabaya in indonesia to singapore did lose contact with air traffic control at 7:24 a.m. local time. now, that's about four hours ago. and according to some reports, it should have reached singapore a couple of hours ago, but hasn't at this point. now, we do know there's a search and rescue operation in progress. we're hearing this from airasia themselves. they say they're cooperating fully in trying to assist this rescue service and that they will give more information just as soon as they can. now, there are some reports out there that we can't confirm at this point suggesting that the pilot had requested to descend because of turbulence, had requested an unusual route. now, we don't know at this point whether or not that is correct. w

paula hancocks cnn belitung island indonesia. >> our thanks to paula for that. such a big search area paula was talking about and we know the weather has been rough. very rough there in recent days. so what's the situation now and how will it affect the search efforts. ? let's bring in chad myers at the cnn weathercenter. chad, what do things look like right now and tomorrow at first light? what will they see then? >> i was very encouraged by the pictures that we just saw from paula how things have really calmed down. the winds have calmed down they have been rough, the seas have been rough, this is a shallow part. in you've ever thought about lake erie where lake miami is deep and there's rollers, lake erie all those waves are very sharp because the waves bounce off the bottom and you get a sharper steeper wave action tomorrow will be a much better day for ships. remember, there's still those pingers throughout they'll be looking for as well. we learned about those on mh-370. this plane had a very rough trip. i'm sure the pilot just said "keep your seat belts o

cnn's paula hancocks boarded a boat with some local civilians who desperately wanted to help in the search efforts. >> reporter: it was a little choppy but the visibility was quite significant. there was only a little bit of rain really nothing to talk about, so visibility would have been good as well from the air clearly as you can see the aircraft did spot parts of the debris. so it was, the weather did hold and that was conducive to the search and rescue operation certainly. as soon as we did hear the reports that in fact the location had been identified the fishing boat we were on turned around and came back to harbor. it was just a local fishing boat who had offered to help just showing the community here wanting to be part of this and wanting to do everything that they could, and as you can imagine, the mood coming back to the harbor was very somber. these fishermen were not only trying to help with the search and rescue operation, but they are fellow indonesians, and certainly most of these passengers and crew on board this flight were indonesian as well. one man who was part of the

cnn's paula hancock is at the staging area for the search. >> reporter: the search-and-rescue operation grown in size this monday. we are at the airport on the island of belitung. all day search and rescue helicopters have been coming in. they're going out on sorties, come back here to refuel have a briefing to find out where they should be going next and heading off. this is becoming one of the staging areas for this search-and-rescue operation. now, this island is one of the closest areas to that last point of contact that the plane had and this is the area that much of the search-and-rescue operation is focusing on. according to one official we just spoke to, the search area now is 240 by 240 nautical miles so a very large area. they're cordoning it off, sectioning it off to make sure there's no overlap, to make sure they don't miss any areas. they're doing this very systematically. i spoke first to marshal sipcypriot cyprioti and he says they haven't been able to narrow the search down. >> translator: we're searching all areas. later if we get new data we can narrow it down. >> i as

you want to bring in paula hancocks on the phone with us in jakarta, indonesia. she's about to head out to one of the islands where flight 8501 was last tracked. paula, can you hear me? >> reporter: hello, poppy, yes, i can. >> so tell me about what you're going to do. i know you guys are notlitary escorts. it's the cnn team. are you going out with search and rescue? >> reporter: well we're heading out to one of the small islands that's close to the last point of contact of this plane. we know it's just after 6:00 in the morning here. the sun is now up. so the search operation has started once again. it was stopped overnight because of the dark obviously the ships were still out on the water, at least seven ships from the indonesian search and rescue agency. a couple of helicopters are heading out. we understand there's more planes also from malaysia and singapore there, including assets into this search operation. but we have been told by the indonesian national rescue agency that it is a very broad search location so they have pointed out that it is not necessar

we want to turn to paula hancocks who is live now from the stageing area in indonesia with more we know daylight hours are waning now, paula. >> reporter: that's right, you can see dusk is falk here. it's falk for a second day. so the air search is effectively over. we seen the past couple of hours here it's been very quiet. we haven't seen helicopters and planes landinged we have throughout the day t. ships in the java sea can stay there. it is very difficult to see anything in the pitch black. so obviously, a very disappointing end to the second day for the relatives and the passengersened the crew. we did speak to the head of the search and operation here. it's one of the islands closest to the last area that this plane was known to have been in. the last point of contact and he basically says that they don't know at this point where the exact sloex. they don't have the data to pin point. where they should be looking. so they have a 240 fought cal mile area. a huge area that they are combing through at the moment. >> thank you so much for the latest information on this search. it is

paula hancocks, belatong island, indonesia. >> now, you would not know it but there have been the fewest aircraft accidents in decades. but it's been a year with the most fatalities since 2005. cnn's rene marsh looks at the context. >> reporter: the disappearance of 162 people on board airasia is the second missing passenger plane in southeast asia in less than a year. >> it is erie. it is unusual or it's just kind of spooky that this would happen in this area. but we don't know the facts yet. >> reporter: after nearly ten months, malaysia airlines flight 370 and the 239 people on board have still not been found. authorities are convinced the boeing 777 crashed in the indian ocean. >> malaysia 370, i think there's good evidence to indicate that it was flown a long, long ways and, again, most likely, as a criminal act, either by a rogue pilot or an intruder or something like that. we have no indication of anything like that in this case. >> reporter: just four months later, july 17th, malaysia airlines would suffer another loss. pro-russian rebels are blamed for shooting mh-17 out of t

president barack obama and paula hancocks is following the story for us from seoul south korea and joins us now live from seoul. paula? >> well, as you say, this was expected. we knew that pyongyang was furious about this movie release. we knew they were happy when it was put on hold and, of course, we knew they weren't going to be happy when it did decide sony pictures decided to go ahead with the release. so we've had this statement from the national defense commission. this is a very powerful institution in north korea showing how seriously they take this. and they've said this saturday they blame sony pictures but they linda stouffer personally blame the u.s. president barack obama. they're effectively saying they believe the u.s. has president put pressure on the sony pictures entertainment and they forced them and blackmailed them they say to carry out this release so they're really blaming and also ip sulting president barack obama calling him reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest. so they really are targeting some very personal insults at him. it's not th

do we have paula hancocks on the right line? paul la? >> caller: yes. can you hear me? >> i think paula is breaking up too much. can we go to the andrew stevens story? all right. andrew stevens has more for you. >> this morning, grim new details it has search for airasia 8501 continues. indonesian authorities leading the search and rescue think the plane is likely on the bottom of the sea. based on coordinates of the plane's last trans mission. here at the surabaya airport, it's crisis central. the distraught relatives of passengers briefed here earlier behind closed doors. monday marks the first full day of searching since 8501 disappeared early sunday morning. so far the plane has not put out any i signals that could help pinpoint the location. instead crews focus on this broad search zone over the shallow waters of java sea where the plane was last tracked. 5:36 a.m. the air bus 320 took off from surabaya. an hour later, 8501 lost contact with air traffic control van aisha ish -- vanishing on route to singapore. the weather conditions may have contributed to the fate

let's go to cnn's paula hancocks who's at the indonesian hospital that's serving as a sort of weigh stationor the remains of victims. paula, what's the latest there? >> reporter: jake, this is really the first-stop hospital for those victims. we're on the west coast of borneo here. and just as you say, in the last hour, two more bodies were brought into the hospital here. sirens announced their arrival. there were red cross workers, hospital workers awaiting the two ambulances. the body bags were then rushed in on gurneys into a special wing of the hospital where they'll be treated and identified. this is really the preliminary identification they'll ascertain the gender, the height, looking at facial recognition, looking at any identifying marks. remember, just recently, the families were asked to give all that information. they were asked to give recent photos of their loved ones exactly for this purpose. now, we're being told by the hospital director also what they're doing is they have representatives of five different religions saying a prayer over the body because they don't know what

earlier, cnn's paula hancocks went out on a boat near where the bodies were found to see the search effortsirsthand. >> reporter: it was a little chop choppy, but the visibility was quite significant. visibility would have been good from the air and clearly, as you can see, the aircraft did spot parts of the debris. so it was -- the weather did hold. that was very conducive to the search-and-rescue operation certainly. as soon as we did hear there were reports that in fact the location had been identified, the fishing boat we were on came back to harbor. it was just a local fishing boat who had offered to help, just showing the community here, wanting to be part of this and wanting to do everything that they could. as you can imagine, the mood coming back to the harbor was very somber. these fishermen were not only trying to help with the search-and-rescue operation but they are fellow indonesians and certainly most of these passengers and crew on board this flight for indonesian as well. one man who was part of the fisheries ministry was on board to look for some of the debris, said he was

let me great straight to paula hancock, she's covering this from jakarta. a flight to go into this search zone. what did you tell us that the hour in terms of what the authorities are saying in the search paula? >> well poppy, this search and rescue operation is very much back on now. it has been for about two and a half hours. 6:00 a.m. this morning, which is 6:00 p.m. eastern, that's when the first plane took off. we know that at least one helicopter has been deployed as well. that will be out over the water for about seven hours maximum, and then it has to turn back the seven hours in all. it'll have a chance to try and see what's out there. flying below 5,000 feet. and of course these flights, want to get as close to the surface of the sea as possible. the weather conditions will be crucial. we know there's been bad weather in the region and that's certainly going to hamper search operations. we did speak to one official who was on one of the ships that's left one of the ports heading to the area. they had the last contact with the flight. he says the w

our paula hancocks reported to us from seoul that it is known as a budget airline with a good record. its fleet is made up entirely of airbus a-320 aircraft. the airline flies to more than 100 destinations across 22 countries with its main hub and headquarters in malaysia's capital, kuala lumpur. and this is interesting to us. airasia quickly updated their company pages on social media. both their facebook and twitter page logos, previously just a short while ago they were red. now you can see that circle is gray. there have been no further updates posted on those pages but we'll continue to track any information. we'll take a quick break. more on this mystery from asia in just a moment. >>> welcome back to cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen. we continue to follow the breaking news out of indonesia. search and rescue operations under way for a missing airasia airline. flight 8501 was en route from the indonesian city of surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air traffic control early sunday morning, more than five hours ago it was expected to land. the pilot asked to change

the president of indonesia and the ceo of airasia are on their way to surabaya we want to go to paula hancock, she got back to land minutes ago after being out on a search effort to see the search efforts firsthand, paula? >> well john just speaking to some of the officials here we have new information about what will happen to some of the victims that are now being found at the location. we understand from officials here that they will be brought to this island they will be brought to a port about an hour away from here. the reason they're not going to the closer island is simply because the water is not deep enough to accommodate the navy ship that will be transporting them. we understand that the bodies are being retrieved from the water. it's not clear how long it will be until they come back do shore. but the trip will take about seven hours. so it will be some time. and of course as you can see, the light is fating now, it's just after 6:00 in the evening, there's not much light left so for the helicopters that are helping retrieve the bodies it will be difficult as well. and in the tow

we go to paula hancocks joining us by phone from indonesia. >> hello, christine.side the military base in the town on the west coast of borneo. this is the first port of call for these bodies once they're pulled out of the water, they're brought here to the island the closest to where the crash location is to be treated and to have the initial identification. the crash location's about 110 nautical miles from here. it was incredibly difficult, the weather has been awful. our flight was delayed by about three hours. we know that the search and rescue operation has been postponed and stopped and started throughout the day because of the bad weather, and according to the chief executive of airasia, this could carry on for the next couple of days. the next two or three days we could see heavy rain, we could see high waves which is of course very detrimental to try to recover some of those bodies. now, what happens here is that the victims are brought here and then they are treated, we understand taken to a nearby hospital. the initial identification can be done for ex

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as paula hancocks explains north korea personally insulted the president. >> reporter: we knew that pyongyangus and they haven't disappointed. we had a statement from the all powerful national defense commission, a powerful institution in north korea, showing how seriously they take this. they are not just blaming sony pictures for the release, they are also blaming u.s. president barack obama giving him some very personal criticism, here is part of that statement. they say, quote, u.s. president obama is the chief culprit who forced the sony pictures entertainment to indiscriminately distribute the movie and took the lead in appeasing and blackmailing cinema houses and theaters. they have personal insults for the u.s. president. calling him reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest. now certainly not the first time they insulted the u.s. president, but interesting that they are singling him out for personal criticism effectively saying it's all his fault. now once again, pyongyang say they weren't responsible for the hacking of sony pictures which is carried out or claim