EARLY EDITION 18:00 President Park Geun-hye invited to Russia for Victory Day celebration

EARLY EDITION 18:00 President Park Geun-hye invited to Russia for Victory Day celebration

ARIRANG NEWS 18:00 fGood evening... it′s Saturday the twentieth of December... you are tuned in to our SIX PM newscast coming to you from Arirang′s News Center in Seoul. It′s very good to have you with us. I′m Mark Broome. Title: President Park Geun-hye invited to Russia for Victory Day celebration: source President Park Geun-hye has been invited to Russia for the 70th anniversary of its victory over Germany in World War Two. A source told Yonhap News Agency that the government will check the president′s schedule for next year,... but it hasn′t been decided yet if she will attend the ceremony or not. Moscow also sent North Korean leader Kim Jong-un an invitation. Russia commemorates the Victory Day on May ninth every year to mark its victory in 1945 over Nazi Germany. Moscow has sent invitations to dozens of world leaders, including Kim Jong-un, who has never visited a foreign country since he took office in 2011. At the 60th Victory Day celebration in 2005, then-South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun attended the ceremony along with more than 50 world leaders, including George W. Bush and Hu Jintao. Title: FBI blames N. Korea for Sony hacking The FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures. President Obama says the U.S. will respond to the attack and added the studio had made a mistake by shelving a movie that depicts the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Hwang Sung-hee reports. The FBI says North Korea is directly responsible for the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures, which had forced the moviemaker to cancel the release of the movie "The Interview." In a statement Friday, the bureau said it had enough information to conclude the North Korean government was responsible. Its conclusion is based on similarities between past cyber attacks by North Korea and a technical analysis of the data deletion malware that revealed links to other malware previously developed by the North. The FBI called it an unacceptable act of state-sponsored intimidation, to which President Barack Obama vowed a "proportional" response. "We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States." In a year-end press conference, President Obama said Sony Pictures made a mistake in shelving "The Interview," a comedy film about an assassination plot on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that was set to be hit cinema screens on Christmas Day. Following threats of additional attacks, major movie theater chains backed out from showing the film, prompting Sony to cancel its release. Sony CEO Michael Lynton told CNN′s Fareed Zakaria that his studio was still looking for alternative ways to show the movie, but it had not found one willing distributor. "There has not been one major VOD video-on-demand distributor one major e-commerce site that has stepped forward and said they are willing to dist