U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday imposing additional sanctions on North Korea.

These new sanctions are a “response to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s numerous provocations, particularly the recent cyber-attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment and the threats against movie theaters and moviegoers,” according to a press release by the U.S. Treasury Department.

The U.S. government has previously blamed North Korea for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment to prevent the release of the film The Interview – which North Korea has denied – and said that it was consideringa proportional response. Despite the claims