North Korea threatens 'merciless' response over Seth Rogen film

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North Korea threatens 'merciless' response over Seth Rogen film

Country wants film about attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un banned and says failure to stop its release will be 'act of war'

North Korea has threatened a "resolute and merciless" response against the US unless it bans a film about an attempt to assassinate the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.

In its first official comment on The Interview, a comedy directed by Evan Goldberg, North Korea warned the US government that failure to stop the film being released would be considered an "act of war".

The comments, attributed by North Korea's official news agency KCNA to an unidentified foreign ministry spokesman, did not mention the film by name, but it was clear that the criticism was directed towards The Interview, which will be released in the US on 14 October.

It appears that the film's plot has touched a nerve inside the regime, which takes a dim view of satirical treatment of its leaders and is notoriously paranoid about perceived threats to their safety.

In the film, Seth Rogen and James Franco play celebrity TV journalists who secure an exclusive interview with Kim, but are then recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.

The foreign ministry official, in typically bombastic style, berated the film's makers as gangsters and described the film's release as "reckless US provocative insanity".

The film had sparked "a gust of hatred and rage" among the North Korean citizens and soldiers, the official said, although ordinary North Koreans are probably unaware of its existence and, with very few exceptions, will never get to see it.

"The act of making and screening such a movie that portrays an attack on our top leadership … is a most wanton act of terror and act of war, and is absolutely intolerable," the spokesman said in a statement carried by KCNA.

Kim Jong-Un onboard a submarine. Kim Jong-Un onboard a submarine. Photograph: KNS/AFP/Getty Images

In the official trailer for The Interview, a CIA intelligence agent draws on many of the stereotypes surrounding North Korea, calling it the "most dangerous country on Earth", and briefs the two journalists on the cult of personality surrounding three generations of the Kim dynasty.

"Kim Jong-un's people believe everything he tells them, including that he can speak to dolphins, or that he doesn't urinate or defecate," the agent says.

Kim, played by the Korean American actor Randall Park, is portrayed as an overweight cigar smoker, although the 31-year-old leader is thought to prefer cigarettes. It is not clear if Kim, who was partly educated in the west, where he developed a love of NBA basketball, has seen the trailer.

His father, Kim Jong-il, was a well-known movie buff who ordered the abduction of the South Korean director Shin Sang-ok in 1987. Shin was forced to make propaganda movies for the regime until his escape.

Kim senior was famously parodied as a lonely despot, raging against the UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, in the 2004 comedy Team America: World Police.

Rogen, who co-wrote the script for The Interview, said the idea for the film arose from a discussion about how it might be possible for journalists with access to world leaders to carry out assassinations.

"We read as much as we could that was available on the subject," he said in a recent interview with Yahoo Movies. "We talked to people in the government whose job it is to associate with North Korea, or be experts on it."

Aware of rumours that the regime was unhappy about the film, Rogen tweeted: "Apparently Kim Jong Un plans on watching #theinterview. I hope he likes it!!"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/north-korea-merciless-response-us-kim-jong-un-film?CMP=fb_gu

Edited June 25, 2014 by The Truth™

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

The shocking twist: After the assassination they remove the mask and its Sean Penn

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They should do something about it.

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Doesn't that fat nobhead have some Starcraft to be playing?

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Doesn't that fat nobhead have some Starcraft to be playing?

He has a shoot for Calvin Klein first modeling their new line of unisex hotpants

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He has a shoot for Calvin Klein first modeling their new line of unisex hotpants

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

They should do something about it.

There was a seen in "Superman Returns" where Jimmy and Clark are watching TV in a bar - they break in to show a shuttle attached to a jet plane taking off into outer-space when the shuttle failed to detach from the plane.. As they enter space Jimmy turns to Clark and says "I should do something!" only to find Clark is gone.

I wish Clark had been there so he could say "Yeah jimmy.. You should do something.. Maybe you can go outside and take a picture of the sky you useless monkey..."

Every evil axis has it's weak link.

Edited June 25, 2014 by OnMyWayID

[GandD 5,966]

There was a seen in "Superman Returns" where Jimmy and Clark are watching TV in a bar - they break in to show a shuttle attached to a jet plane taking off into outer-space when the shuttle failed to detach from the plane.. As they enter space Jimmy turns to Clark and says "I should do something!" only to find Clark is gone.

I wish Clark had been there so he could say "Yeah jimmy.. You should do something.. Maybe you can go outside and take a picture of the sky you useless monkey..."

Every evil axis has it's weak link.

Useless monkey

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Dennis Rodman will probably work hard to get the movie banned and help out his little buddy.

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Dennis Rodman will probably work hard to get the movie banned and help out his little buddy.

He should be working half as hard on getting the Kim Jong-Un barbie doll into stores.