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North Korea declares war on the US

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I'm not kidding...  

 

 

Over a movie...

 

 

 

It turns out that North Korea doesn’t find much humor in a big-screen comedy about the assassination of its leader. The movie The Interviewis set to hit theaters in October and stars James Franco and Seth Rogen as a talk-show host and his producer who, after landing an interview with Kim Jong Un, are drafted by the CIA to kill him. Today, North Koreareleased a strongly worded statement through its state-run news agency, saying, “If the United States administration tacitly approves or supports the release of this film, we will take a decisive and merciless countermeasure.” The statement also described the movie as “an act of war that we will never tolerate.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/north-korea-calls-the-seth-rogen-james-franco-comedy-89863655502.html

 

 

 

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Yeah I get it's satire, but since I first saw this trailer it seemed needlessly provocative. Even the great Charlie Chaplin knew you didn't parody a despot by name, as in The Great Dictator. Of course a world leader isn't going to take it lightly when a movie centers around him or her being assassinated. Just as I imagine Americans wouldn't take it lightly if a movie from Iran was a comedy about assassinating Obama, of even Bush during his presidency.

 

It just seems needlessly inflammatory to make a movie about killing not just a Kim-Jong-Un-like character, but Kim Jong Un himself.

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