The UK on Friday blamed North Korea for the WannaCry cyber attack which affected the country’s hospitals in May this year.

In an interview on British radio, UK Security Minister Ben Wallace attributed the attack the DPRK with as much certainty “as possible.”

“This attack, we believe quite strongly that this came from a foreign state … North Korea was the state that we believe was involved in this worldwide attack,” Wallace told the BBC’s Today programme.

“It is widely believed in the community and across a number of countries that North Korea had taken this role.”

The WannaCry cyberattack