A week before U.S. officials officially fingered North Korea Friday as being responsible for the damaging cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, military leaders warned about potential dangers in the region and vowed to "deter" Pyongyang. The Obama administration has been studying North Korea's involvement in the attacks for weeks, and the secretary of the Navy outlined plans last week to beef up America’s fleet in the Pacific.
"There will be more ships in this region to do exercises to hopefully deter any sort of actions and to make sure that we are ready for working with” South Korea, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus told the Yonhap news agency. “We will be a fleet of more than 300 ships by the end of this decade, and 60 percent of those ships will be in the Pacific region. We are 50 percent now, and we are shifting our most modern platforms here.”
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