It didn’t make sense that NK would care about what Sony execs said about their movie stars; NKs probably know as much about our stars as we know about theirs. One could smell a rat from the beginning of this, and the only question was what species of rat was creating the “crisis.”
I think they wanted a digital “Reichstag Fire” to justify even more of a government takeover of the Internet, for our own good.
Species of rat was apparently democ.