{"id":27869,"date":"2014-06-27T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27869"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:13:33","slug":"north-korea-threatens-war-on-us-over-kim-jong-un-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/north-korea-threatens-war-on-us-over-kim-jong-un-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea threatens war on US over Kim Jong-un movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea has promised “merciless” retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Jong-un is released, say agencies.<\/p>\n

A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in state media that the movie’s release would be an “act of war”.<\/p>\n

He did not mention the title, but a Hollywood movie called The Interview with a similar plot is due in October.<\/p>\n

Hollywood actors James Franco and Seth Rogen star in the action-comedy film.<\/p>\n

Rogen, who is also one of the directors of The Interview, has since responded on Twitter saying: “People don’t usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they’ve paid 12 bucks for it.”<\/p>\n

Franco and Rogen 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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Hollywood actor James Franco stars in The Interview as a talkshow host invited to interview Kim Jong-un<\/div>\n
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Kim Jong-un took power after his father Kim Jong-il died in 2011, which prompted a change in the film’s script<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Rogen recently said he was inspired by journalists’ trips to North Korea.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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