Sony canceling the release of The Interview
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Except Kim Jong-un's legitimacy is completely based on the idea that he is basically a god, so it's really not surprising why he's reacting badly to a movie that humiliates him? Lol. That's the only way he maintains power over the people on North Korea, by brainwashing them into loving/fearing him. Add the fact that he's only been the 'supreme leader' for a few years so he's still trying to prove himself. Plus North Korea is really vain. They want to feel like they're an important/successful country so they constantly make threats even though everyone knows that it's very unlikely they would ever actually launch a full-scale attack on South Korea/US because they would be instantly crushed. The US/rest of the world plays along and even tries to give economic assistance to North Korea because their people are freaking starving meanwhile in Pyongyang new luxury hotels and theme parks etc are being built for the elite political peeps and to showcase to the world how 'well off' North Korea is. ugh. Lol sorry for the rant I did a year long research paper for my junior year in college on this and North Korea is just the f****** worst.
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I read about this in a magazine. It makes perfect sense that it was cancelled.
oath2order
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No it doesn't! North Korea has practically no capabilities to launch an attack on the US.
Sure if you're one of those can't take a joke types.
steady on there, someone hasnt been paying attention to geopolitics on the korean peninsula.
sure america's military is several orders better than the norks, but starting a war with nork will result in hundreds of thousands of dead koreans. there are hundreds of rockets and artillery batteries trained on the south korean capital that make no mistake the regime WILL fire if they r attacked. it shud come as no surprise that the nork leadership is actually insane and will not go quietly. we dont even know if they have nuclear capability and we rly dont want to find out when the first nuke detonates in seoul or tokyo.
oh and theres china, who although have been getting tired of nork's antics of late, still has plenty of reason to prop up the regime and not see it fall.
like i said above, north korean leadership is insane. the crazy, violent, inward-looking backwardness of nork is something outsiders literally cannot fathom. they r a terrorist regime without morality. they have done crazy **** for years. its funny in a sad way that it took a SONY hack to get normals to realise what a vile, terrorist regime north korea is.
also, cyberwar is real. i hope the damage that snowden did and how it made much needed nsa reform impossible was worth it.
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DJStarstryker
Senior Member
Yep. That's why, after I saw the leaked scene where Kim Jong-un dies, I understood why North Korea was offended. Yes, it's supposed to be funny/a joke, but they won't see it that way.
Alolan_Apples
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North Korea - the worst country in the world.
Not only Kim Jong-Un doesn't want any of his countrymen to have any sort of freedom, but he also hates America. And we have the freedom of speech. Just because we don't make an anti-North Korean film available in North Korea doesn't mean we can't watch it. It's not nice to infringe on someone's culture if you don't even live there.
Not only Kim Jong-Un doesn't want any of his countrymen to have any sort of freedom, but he also hates America. And we have the freedom of speech. Just because we don't make an anti-North Korean film available in North Korea doesn't mean we can't watch it. It's not nice to infringe on someone's culture if you don't even live there.
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Alolan_Apples
“Assorted” Collector
That's only a bit prejudiced but more importantly not very nice
It's not the North Koreans that are bad. It's just the government. But having a bad government like that can tarnish your nation's reputation that bad.
Good point. You can also say the same about the US
Uh are you comparing the NK government to the US government? lol.
There's one huge difference here. NK = Kim Jong-un and his political cronies. Period. The people of North Korea are brainwashed & have no contact with the outside world. The North Korean regime is no doubt the worst in the world. It is arguably as terrible as the Nazi regime was, maybe worse (although, I don't think you can really compare levels of human suffering - obviously they are both horrible). The worst part is most of the world is either unaware or complacent about the absolute lack of human rights in NK.
Personally I'm glad this movie's release has been stopped, because I don't think it's right to make a comedy about a very serious situation. Imagine if Hotel Rwanda had been a comedy, for example. Of course I may be wrong since I haven't seen the movie, maybe it is able to use comedy to show people the gravity of the situation in NK, but I seriously doubt it.
Also, freedom of speech is not the issue here - the US government did not stop the movie, Sony decided to cancel release because the movie theaters refused to screen it due to the threats. These are simple business decisions, and make very much sense. I can explain in further detail but it's late and I'm tired.
Bottom line: North Korea is the worst.
for anyone who wants knowledge on how the nork regime thinks and operates, i strongly recommend the cleanest race by B. R. Myers. most ppl associate north korea with some sort of last bastion of marxism-lenininsm guided by the strange ideological socialist autocracy called juche. as myers points out, this is not true. and unlike most of the ppl who claim to understand dprk, myers actually spent a significant amount of time in south korea, and visited dprk twice. he spoke the language and understood the culture. most uninformed commentators apply some out-dated cold war thinking simply because its a "communist state".
tldr of myers's book:
juche is a load of crap that dprk leadership put out for us ignorant foreigners to consume
in reality, the regimes actual beliefs (which they bombard their population with 24/7) r just a form of crude nationalism that is good at motivating ppl during tough times. in this, they r actually more like asian nazis. in fact, they draw more influence from the japanese mystical ultranationalism when the japanese occupied korea for nearly half a century, than they did from the soviets.
also, dprks ideology is race-based, emphasising the blood derived purity of koreans which they insist has been maintained in the north but polluted in the south (sound like the nazis much??). if u watch nork propaganda about the us military, there is a lot of emphasis on portraying the military as being full of rednecks, latinos and blacks. something of a wet dream for goebbels.
this ideology is racist, and not nice, and us being nice civilised ppl dont discuss this and cant possibly comprehend y pyongyang r doing the crazy things they r doing now.
tldr of myers's book:
juche is a load of crap that dprk leadership put out for us ignorant foreigners to consume
in reality, the regimes actual beliefs (which they bombard their population with 24/7) r just a form of crude nationalism that is good at motivating ppl during tough times. in this, they r actually more like asian nazis. in fact, they draw more influence from the japanese mystical ultranationalism when the japanese occupied korea for nearly half a century, than they did from the soviets.
also, dprks ideology is race-based, emphasising the blood derived purity of koreans which they insist has been maintained in the north but polluted in the south (sound like the nazis much??). if u watch nork propaganda about the us military, there is a lot of emphasis on portraying the military as being full of rednecks, latinos and blacks. something of a wet dream for goebbels.
this ideology is racist, and not nice, and us being nice civilised ppl dont discuss this and cant possibly comprehend y pyongyang r doing the crazy things they r doing now.
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Lemon Loaf
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I don't think anyone actually thinks that North Korea is truly communist now, and not really ever. The problem is that it's a dictatorship and they have a really huge cult of personality around their leader.
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Do you mean withheld the movie? They didn't, did they? I believe they just said it was okay if theaters didn't want to show it due to the threats, but many theaters are still showing it anyway. It's up to each chain, not to Sony.