North Korea threatens USA because of Comedy film

Original Article from NPR

While it's hard to imagine Seth Rogen and James Franco being the proximate cause of World War III, the stars of Pineapple Express have prompted the latest round of blustery threats from North Korea.

Pyongyang has promised "merciless" retaliation if their latest comedy, The Interview is released as scheduled in October.

To be sure, the plot hits a little close to home – especially for a secretive and paranoid regime: a talk show host and his producer (Franco and Rogen, respectively) score an interview with Kim Jong Un (played by Randall Park) and are subsequently recruited by the CIA to assassinate the North Korean leader.

The country's official KCNA news service called the actors "gangster filmmakers" and said that if the U.S. government allowed the release of the movie, Pyongyang would consider it an "act of war."

A Foreign Ministry official quoted by KCNA berated the movie as "reckless U.S. provocative insanity," that had spawned "a gust of hatred and rage" among the people of North Korea.

"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 official said.

"If the U.S. administration allows and defends the showing of the film, a merciless counter-measure will be taken," the spokesman said.

The controversy has been brewing since the trailer was released earlier this month. Rogen recently acknowledged it in a tweet:

Lol.

This sounds like an article form the onion

It's interesting when leaders of such nations throw around the word 'insanity' - I would consider it insane to let your population starve while you live in splendor and grow fat.

I saw that trailer last movie I saw, looking forward to it. I was actually thinking there was going to be some kind of reaction because of this, I just figured a North Korean spy was going to try to go kill the films creators.

I'm going to see this movie ONLY because it shits all over Kim Jong Un.

They should threaten America to start making funny movies again.

Ye are so fucked.

It's funny that Kim Jong Un expects the US to blatantly violate the First Amendment just to get us to remove a movie that he finds offensive. If we don't even stop studios from making films that show our own head of state being killed what makes us think we will care about him?

Next up, North Korea threatens google for having pictures of Kim Jong un on their data base. Country is a joke.

Apparently, Kim Jong Un has a hard time separating reality from fiction. It's just a movie, my man. Nothing to get worked up about.

I feel like I need to see this movie in support of freedom.

The real fiction is that he has any real power whatsoever. It's all an act to retain control of NK. It's a very, very sad place.

LOL

on topic to hell with north korea

He's like the Wile E. Coyote of world leaders. In fact, here's his "Ruthless counter measure"...

This reminds me of the South Park episode of Family Guy. XD

Did 'Team America' also get their panties in a bunch?

Kim Jong Un needs to

A Foreign Ministry official quoted by KCNA berated the movie as "reckless U.S. provocative insanity," that had spawned "a gust of hatred and rage" among the people of North Korea.

The people of North Korea, a foreign ministry official says.

The average citizen of North Korea does not watch foreign films. Stop lying to your people and feed them, Kim Jong-un.

He knows he likes the attention...

if the DPRK made a movie about killing Obama the USA would freakout.

Yeah I was thinking that, a country like North Korea are really threatening to the USA.

@osirisx3: I'm not even sure the US would even notice. What would the budget be for it, about 20-25 bucks? And besides, didn't they show off news footage of their latest fighter jet by splicing in scenes from the movie Top Gun a few years back?

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn

North Korea: The short bus of nation-states.

The North Koreans yesterday showed what can happen when they’re not amused. The North fired three “ultra-precision” guided missiles off the east coast of the peninsula. The missiles flew 190 kilometers before falling into the sea. The official North Korean news agency said, naturally, the test was perfect. “The guided missiles soared into the sky with a thunderous roar. The test-fire clearly proved that the tactical guided weapons didn’t have an inch of deviation in their scientific and technological performance.”

Oh snap better watch out.

No, no it wouldn't. A few people would of course, plus a few other people would be cheering on, but I have a hard time seeing the US Government sending out an official response.

In any case, can't wait for this to be released, I'm really enjoying North Korea threatening everyone for the most pointless crap and then not doing anything about it. Realistically if I knew that a good portion of South Korea would be devastated and a lot of people would die in a war, I'd be cheering for NK to actually try to do something. Would be interesting to see how long they'd last.

@hallenbeck77: Pffft. lol Perfect!

As a matter of fact, yes.

@ad1x2:

Hmm. Maybe North Korea doesn't understand that in the U.S. people do things independent of the government. Because any movie in North Korea probably has to have the approval of the government, maybe they think any movie produced in the U.S. has the U.S. gov't's stamp of approval.

North Korea, don't start wars you can't win.

Kim Jong Un best watch out, the Green Goblin is coming for him.

So how many times have they made threats like this and not followed through? It's hard to keep count.

Kim Jong Un was educated in Europe in a country that has similar freedoms as the US. He knows that the government can't legally stop this movie from coming out but he makes himself look good threatening the US for allowing it to be released.