N’Korea threatens war on US over movie
North Korea has promised “merciless” retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Jong-un is relinquished, BBC reports.
A North Korean peregrine ministry spokesman verbally expressed in state media that the movie’s release would be an “act of war”.
He did not mention the denomination, but a Hollywood movie called, The Interview, with a kindred 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 engenderer who are invited to interview Kim Jong-un, and are subsequently recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate the bellwether.
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 relinquishing a movie on a plot to hurt our top-level leadership is the most conspicuously perceivable act of terrorism and war and will absolutely not be abode.”
He integrated that the “reckless US provocative insanity” of mobilising a “gangster filmmaker” to challenge the North’s leadership was triggering “a gust of detestation and rage” among North Korean people and soldiers.
“If the US administration sanctions and bulwarks the exhibiting of the film, a merciless counter-measure will be taken,” the spokesman was quoted as saying.
Apparent evidence emerged last week fortifying claims that North Korea is further developing its missile technology. Some experts verbalized they had identified an incipient 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 verbally expressed to be a tourist denominated Jeffrey Edward Fowle who reportedly left a Bible at a hotel.
