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It turns out President Obama is going to be up front and visible as he responds to North Korea’s alleged cyber attack on a major American company.<\/p>\n

He took time from his vacation in Hawaii to sign an executive order slapping economic sanctions on North Korea.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/obama-sanctions-north-korea-sony-cyberattack\/story?id=27965524<\/p>\n

I’m still thinking the president had a hand in North Korea’s Internet crash shortly after dictator Kim Jong-Un bullied Sony Pictures into holding back release of “The Interview,” a fictional story about a plot to assassinate the North Korean dictator. The bullying included the alleged hacking into Sony’s emails and other communications.<\/p>\n

Obama threatened a “proportional” response.<\/p>\n

Now we have the sanctions. They’re sweeping and designed to bring serious economic pain to a government known for bringing plenty of pain of its own to its people.<\/p>\n

According to ABC News: “The order authorizes the Treasury Department to shutdown access to the U.S. financial system, prohibiting transactions and freezing assets, for specific officials\u00a0 and entities of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and anyone who supports them.”<\/p>\n

Further, according to ABC: “‘The order is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the Government of North Korea and its activities that threaten the United States and others,’ Obama wrote in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner<\/a> and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell notifying them of the action.”<\/p>\n

Will the sanctions work? Well, Kim Jong-Un ought to ask Soviet strongman\/president Vladimir\u00a0Putin about the effectiveness of these sanctions.<\/p>\n

Yes, they’ll work.<\/p>\n

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It turns out President Obama is going to be up front and visible as he responds to North Korea’s alleged cyber attack on a major American company. He took time from his vacation in Hawaii to sign an executive order slapping economic sanctions on North Korea. http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/obama-sanctions-north-korea-sony-cyberattack\/story?id=27965524 I’m still thinking the president had a hand … Continue reading Sanctions seek to punish North Korea<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[540,1511,2293,2523,2681,3099,3335,4050,4312,4767,5125],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-international-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-internet","tag-john-boehner","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-north-korea","tag-russia","tag-sony","tag-the-interview","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}