Saturday, January 3, 2015

'The Interview': no laughing matter for N. Korean defectors

Movie-goers wait in line to purchase tickets for "The Interview" outside the Los Feliz 3 Cinema in Los Angeles, California on December 25, 2014 Hollywood comedy "The Interview" has won a few fans in between sparking apocalyptic warnings from North Korea -- but for defectors who escaped the communist state, there's nothing funny about it. Defectors based in the South have flocked to see the film at the centre of an escalating international row thanks to its lurid depiction of the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. The United States claims that the film's presentation of Kim -- whose family has ruled the reclusive, impoverished state for more than six decades -- prompted Pyongyang to launch a massive cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, the studio that made it. "Every defector I know has seen the movie," said Kim Sung-Min, who fled the North in 1996 and now runs the anti-Pyongyang Free North Korea Radio station.








via Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

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