Kim Jong-Un threatens war over "The Interview"

[Postman Dave]

North Korea has promised "merciless" retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Jong-un is released, say agencies.

A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in state media that the movie's release would be an "act of war".

He did not mention the title, but a Hollywood movie called The Interview with a similar plot is due in October.

Hollywood actors James Franco and Seth Rogen star in the action-comedy film.

They play a talkshow host and his producer who are invited to interview Kim Jong-un, and are subsequently recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assassinate the leader.

The film's teaser trailer, posted on Youtube, shows a lookalike actor playing Kim Jong-un, as well as fight scenes involving what appear to be North Korean tanks and helicopters, and a nuclear missile launch.

The North Korea spokesman was quoted by the state KCNA news agency as saying: "Making and releasing a movie on a plot to hurt our top-level leadership is the most blatant act of terrorism and war and will absolutely not be tolerated."

He added that the "reckless US provocative insanity" of mobilising a "gangster filmmaker" to challenge the North's leadership was triggering "a gust of hatred and rage" among North Korean people and soldiers.

"If the US administration allows and defends the showing of the film, a merciless counter-measure will be taken," the spokesman was quoted as saying.

Apparent evidence emerged last week supporting claims that North Korea is further developing its missile technology. Some experts said they had identified a new anti-ship cruise missile shown in a North Korean propaganda film. Other observers were more sceptical.

North Korea is holding three Americans in custody. The latest to be detained is said to be a tourist named Jeffrey Edward Fowle who reportedly left a Bible at a hotel.

Rogen, one of the directors of The Interview, recently said he was inspired by journalists' trips to North Korea.

He told Yahoo: "People have the hypothetical discussion about how journalists have access to the world's most dangerous people, and they hypothetically would be in a good situation to assassinate them."

He added that the film was originally about meeting Kim Jong-il, but they had to revise the script when he died in 2011 and his son Kim Jong-un took power.

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So yeah, Seth Rogan & James Franco could start WW3.

 

[Sabretooth]

Oh dear

 

[Swinny]

Can you imagine if a war starts over a Seth Rogen movie? That'd certainly be a sign that the times are a'changin'...

I kinda get why they're pissed off though (not THIS pissed off, not starting a war pissed off) but it is a movie about their leader being assassinated. If it was a comedy about Barack Obama being assassinated it'd never get made.

Will have to see what the movie is like in the end though and just how far they go. It might not be that bad.

 

[Cyrus Riddle]

I love seeing "powerful" people get their feelings hurt over stupid shit.

 

[Swamps]

Screw em. They just better hope America doesn't smarten up and put another Republican in the White House next election. Would be suicide if they ever brought the war to American soil....

By the way, I thought we started wars over stupid ass reasons... geeeeeezzzzz

 

[Postman Dave]

So.......

This sure escalated. Of course, the North Koreans have denied involvement.

 

[Swamps]

I kind of wonder if this is just a publicity stunt. Anyway, this really isn't that big of an issue, and its amazing that it escalated into this. It has gotten a lot of time on the news

 

[Postman Dave]

And now Paramount have pulled a load of "special viewings" of Team America.

Man, Hollywood is rattled as fuck right now.

 

[Wang Chung]

When we start to bow down to terrorist threats and attacks we have already lost any credibility with anything.

 

[Sabretooth]

When we start to bow down to terrorist threats and attacks we have already lost any credibility with anything.

Spare me. Safety is the top priority.

 

[Wang Chung]

Then you are force fed this bull shit and we are not a free country then.

 

[Swamps]

Wouldn't it be funny if this was all an act? Just think how well the revenue for this movie would be.