President Obama has said that he does not consider the Sony hacks to be an act of war by North Korea—which the president's administration has blamed for the attack—but rather vandalism, the Chicago Tribune reports.

"No, I don't think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously. We will respond proportionately," Obama told CNN's Candy Crowley.

However, the Obama administration is considering putting North Korea back on the White House's list of state sponsors of terrorism, the Associated Press reports. North Korea was included on the list for two decades before being removed in 2008 by the Bush administration during nuclear negotiations.

According to CBS News, David Boies, a lawyer representing Sony Pictures Entertainment, said that The Interview is still going to be released. "How it's going to be distributed, I don't think anybody knows quite yet," Boies said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I think we've got to recognize that this is not a Sony security problem. This is a national security problem."

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