North Korea blasts U.S. over release of 'The Interview'
Source: CNN
North Korea issued a statement on its official state news agency on Saturday denouncing Sony Pictures Entertainment's release of the movie "The Interview." It called President Barack Obama the "chief culprit" who forced the production company to "indiscriminately distribute" the picture.
The statement attributed to the National Defense Commission also denounced the United States for blaming North Korea for a hacking attack on the moviemaker earlier this month.
"If the U.S. is to persistently insist that the hacking attack was made by the DPRK, the U.S. should produce evidence without fail, though belatedly," the statement publish by KCNA said.
In the screwball comedy, a tabloid journalist, who is granted an interview with the communist dictatorship's leader, is asked to assassinate him. But when he arrives, a fictional version of dictator Kim Jong Un, played by actor Randall Park, charms him.
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napi21
(45,806 posts)My guess is that relatively few people would have bothered to pay to go see the movie had NK not made it such an issue. NOW, many more people are going to watch it just to see what the fuss was all about.
Gman
(24,780 posts)And they especially don't get that they really are the oddball of the world which is what is supposed to make the movie funny.
PSPS
(13,579 posts)Jingoism sells well in the USA.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)...it's going to have a hell of a time just breaking even. And that's WITHOUT the piracy.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)One of the hacked emails said that Seth tried to get Kim to play himself in the movie.
christx30
(6,241 posts)those countries use for the US whenever we talk about their terrible human rights record. Thank them very much for staying the hell out of our internal affairs.
Also remind them of this video they produced:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9939715/N-Korea-video-shows-Washington-under-attack.html
Ryan Fitzomething
(139 posts)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy "The Interview."
North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures initially called off the release citing threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters. Obama criticized Sony's decision, and the movie has opened this week.
On Saturday, the North's powerful National Defense Commission, the country's top governing body led by Kim, said that Obama was behind the release of "The Interview." It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unidentified spokesman at the commission's Policy Department said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
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Which, inevitably, leads me to recall this, from the late Christopher Hitchens, not quite four years ago.
SunSeeker
(51,512 posts)It is really stunning to learn that nutrition --and life in general-- are so bad in North Korea that the average North Korean is 6 inches shorter than the average South Korean.