The North Korean regime has issued a response to The Interview's release, blaming Obama for blackmailing Sony, promising deadly blows.
It is often said that life imitates art. Well for any of the (hopefully) millions of Americans that exercised their freedoms this holiday season by watching The Interview at a theater or via video on demand (i.e. not the pirates), it would appear that the leadership of North Korea is playing right along with the crude movie’s broad caricature.
After succeeding in getting Sony to cancel the release of the film via online hacks that the FBI has stated were orchestrated by North Korea, the regime’s National Defense Commission was unhappy to learn that Sony went ahead and opened the picture in limited release and online on Christmas Day after all. Notably, this was only after U.S. President Barack Obama chastised the movie company for bending to a foreign country’s demands with threats of 9/11 reminiscent attacks.
Now, a government that seems even more absurd than the Katy Perry-loving nuts that appeared in Seth Rogen’s The Interview has issued a response blaming the film’s release on President Obama, suggesting he strong-armed and blackmailed Sony and movie theaters into releasing the film; The National Defense Commission also compared the American president to a monkey, because they obviously want to be considered as a credible authority.
According to an NDC spokesman, the U.S. government is to blame for spreading “dishonest and reactionary movie, hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK [North Korea] and agitating terrorism.”
The statement elaborated that President Obama is “the chief culprit who forced the Sony Pictures Entertainment to indiscriminately distribute the movie…Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.”
A nuclear power behaving with such petulance loses its absurdity, however, when more threats are inevitably espoused. As quoted by CNN, the NDC also concluded its statement by making threats of “deadly” retaliation. This is also in accordance and reaction to recent cyber attacks on North Korea that shut the Internet down around the nation for about a day; Pyongyang has blamed on the U.S. government for this ongoing problem (Obama previously said the U.S. would respond "proportionally" to the Sony hack).
"If the U.S. persists in American-style arrogant, high-handed and gangster-like arbitrary practices despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, the U.S. should bear in mind that its failed political affairs will face inescapable deadly blows."
It should be noted that The Interview has been playing in over 300 locations since Thursday without reported incident.
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