places The Interview be shown . . . how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to . The message further stated, The world will be full of fear , [. . .] Remember the 11th of September 2001 , and We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. . The threat caused theaters across the United States to cancel showings of The Interview and caused Sony Pictures to cancel the release of the film in theaters. (15) On December 19, 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that North Korea was responsible for the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment and the threat against the movie theaters, and that the Guardians of Peace was a unit of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, its foreign intelligence service. (16) In March 2015, the South Korean government publicly accused North Korea of responsibility for a December 2014 cyber attack against multiple nuclear power plants in South Korea, stated that the attacks were intended to cause a malfunction at the plants’ reactors, and described the attacks as acts of cyber-terror targeting our country . (b) Sense of congress It is the sense of the Congress that the Government of North Korea likely meets the criteria for designation as a state sponsor of terrorism and, if so, should be so designated. North Korea has failed to live up to its 2008 commitments to verifiably dismantle its nuclear weapons program and appears to have continued to support acts of international terrorism after its removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in October 2008. (c) Report