(North Koreans doing the “Iron Fist” of Juche in a march.)
The Juche regime of North Korea has made Sony tremble. The Interview, a comedy about a CIA assassination of Kim Jung Un has made his regime very angry. For months, the Juche regime demanded Sony not release this movie, since it was disrespecting one of the Gods of the Juche pantheon. Sony did not take these threats serious, and as a result, leaks emerged that have embarrassed the studio.
Now the Juche regime via hackers is demanding that theaters do not play the Interview or there will be more leaks. Bowing to these threats, Sony announced plans to not release the Interview.
With theater chains defecting en masse, Sony Pictures Entertainment has pulled the planned Christmas Day release of “The Interview.”
U.S. officials have reportedly linked a massive cyber attack against Sony to North Korea, which is at the center of the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy.
“We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public,” Sony said in a statement. “We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.”
In announcing the decision to cancel the holiday debut, Sony also hit back at the hackers who threatened movie theaters and moviegoers and who have terrorized the studio and its employees for weeks.
“Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale – all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like,” the statement reads.
A few hours after making the announcent, a studio spokesman said that Sony had “no further plans” to release the comedy, either on VOD or DVD.
If the tactics of the Juche followers reminds of of Islamic tactics, there is a reason for this. Both are invented totalitarian ideologies bent on enslaving the human soul. Just as Muslims get violent when Muhammad is insulted, the Juche regime also gets violent when a member of the Kim family is mocked.
Another aspect that is being overlooked, Sony was originally a Japanese company. North Korean propaganda is very anti-Japanese and that nation is considered demonic within the pantheon of the Juche religion. Expect the Juche regime to play this up as a victory over Capitalism, America and Japan.
The North Koreans are already bragging about this victory over SONY on Twitter.
Heroes force Japanese cinema bandits to bow before indomitable fist of Korean people. 10,000 years of life to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un!
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) December 17, 2014
Tags: Sony, The Interview, The Popular Culture
