North Korea again denied involvement in the cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment and urged the U.S. to withdraw recently-imposed sanctions.
 
The North’s National Defense Commission said in a statement on Wednesday that no action is more provocative than imposing sanctions without definitive proof that the North was behind the Sony hacking. The statement then called on Washington to completely scrap sanction measures against the North.
 
The commission said the U.S. must not forget that the North’s military and people are resolute in responding to any threats, adding that Pyongyang will closely watch for any changes in U.S. policies.
 
The commission also called for a halt in all hostile activities that create a risk of war on the Korean Peninsula, including annual South Korea-U.S. joint military drills.
 
The commission’s statement comes after U.S. President Barack Obama attributed the North for the Sony hacking and signed an executive order last week imposing additional sanctions on the communist state.