The past week has shown several internet and hacking experts clear North Korea as responsible for the hacking attack on Sony.
That is, North Korea was not responsible for the hacking.
Former Sony employees (and possibly the CIA) are suspected as providing the main impetus for the false rumors.
So far no apologies, including from President Obama.
Attacks on North Korea's internet in the past few days also indicate it's not at world class level regarding advanced technical management.
This inconsistency has not been explained.
Meanwhile, Sony's movie The Interview has won massive audiences eager to view the story.
Viewers have been wearing body armor and arriving in vehicles with bullet proof glass and in steel-reinforced humvees.
At times their personal weaponry--as with pistols, hunting rifles, AK-47's--had to be checked into theater storage closets by additional ushers employed for the task.
Wherever possible police, including mounted police, have circled theaters smacking their gloved hands together to keep warm while warning off hoodlums or foreign armies of any sort whatever.
Some theaters (mostly on the east coast) are selling rotten fruit at stands in the lobby so customers can hurl various dripping and odorous objects at the screen.
These theaters have planted American flags on the sidewalks leading to the box office. Various sizes of these flags are on sale in the lobby.
A company named Guy Fawkes America is selling full body-size mannequins resembling Kim Jong Un for under fifty dollars each.
These can be set aflame at bonfires with fire crackers on New Year's Eve, in the start of a new tradition of who-do-we-hate-most-on-the-globe ceremonies.
The White House and State Department have commented anonymously that all this patriotic zeal will be useful in case the US needs to attack North Korea as we move into the new year.
There is some indication the new Republican dominated congress seeks to resurrect George W. Bush's "axis of evil," regarding Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
Various unnamed bi-partisan figures (Mr. Bush as advisor, plus Mr. Obama are rumored) are planning a New Year's symposium on a new "axis of evil" movement.
Their objective is how to put some reasoning into this view, instead of relying mainly on the sentiments of exuberant customers at marquees where The Interview is currently showing.
