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Kim Jong-un declares the upcoming movie "The Interview" as an "act of war"
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Chie Satonaka
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This is nothing but really good publicity.
Kim won't do anything but whine, and people who weren't even interested will now go to see this.
sixteen-bit
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Send in Dennis Rodman for diplomatic negotiations
Bobs Big Boy
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That gives this film a lot of power.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Not welcome anymore after he used the entire country as an open bar and bathroom.
vas_a_morir
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You never know, but there are several reasons why I believe it would be considerably shorter than Iraq. Geography, political climate in East Asia, culture in North Korea, and so forth.
Iraq war was over pretty quick, as far as the principle belligerents were concerned. It's the ensuing power-vacuum and sectarian violence that made Iraq a nightmare. I don't have any reason to believe such a thing would happen in North Korea. But, I suppose that's the thing with unforeseen consequences.
Fortunately, total war with North Korea will likely never happen.
I lol'd.
North Korea always seems to be riled up about something. I doubt they actually assassinate him in the movie.
vas_a_morir
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He flew back to his home cockroach planet... (or did they blow up the rocket?)
lol, oh yeah
All I remembered was that he fell on a spike in the end or something (or was that the South Park movie?)
Ampersands
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If this movie does cause WW III, I might just consider watching it.
Is the North Korea political strategy that if they throw enough insults and empty threats at the US, that countries around the world will eventually start a conflict with the US and then they could reap the rewards?
Such a lazy and abysmally run country. The treehouse club feeds on its citizens, sits back, talks shit.
Such a lazy and abysmally run country. The treehouse club feeds on its citizens, sits back, talks shit.
Mammoth Jones
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It's amazing how dictators can feel so threatened by a silly movie.
If your power can be threatened by two slapstick comic actors then perhaps you're not as "Dear" of a leader as you thought...
If your power can be threatened by two slapstick comic actors then perhaps you're not as "Dear" of a leader as you thought...
Delta Assault
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You've fucked us for the last time, Franco.
I get the feeling a hundred years from now historians and people in general will wonder what the fuck people were thinking in the early 21st century. Or things will get weirder and worse and the early 21st century will be viewed as some sort of transitory period.
poppabk
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Off topic but how the hell did we get suckered into using the term WMD? Just the vagueness of the term, when we are talking about weapons that could kill millions of people, is off putting. You can't be more specific? 'they have the ability to kill a million people in an instant, but we aren't really sure by what method - maybe an anti-gravity gun of some sort'
As ridiculous as it is, the no bodily elimination joke about Kim Jong Un almost certainly originated from these reports about official DPRK textbooks about Kim Jong Il apparently claiming exactly that.
SlipperySlope
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Huh. The great thing about North Korea is you never know when a joke about them is real.
vas_a_morir
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I think that was team America. He fell off the balcony. And then the cockroach ran out of his head(?) and went to a space ship. I really can't remember.
Zomba13
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Kim Jong-Un will tell the North Korean people that America has done something horrible and North Korea has retaliated to defend it's peoples honour and will end up shooting a badly filmed, edited and produces film that "documents" North Korea beating America and publicly executing Seth Rogan and James Fanco "live" on TV.
They'd name a shitty band after them.
vas_a_morir
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I've heard this is a real strategy. It worked out well in the long run for Japan. I sometimes wonder if this was the initial plan: attack the US, then immediately negotiate a cease-fire that will be favorable to US and Japanese interests and would reopen the trade relationship with the US and countries that rely on the Panama Canal. Probably vacate all challenged territories in Asia, and keep Manchuria.
Because, there is no way an importer of resources could ever hope to defeat and exporter of resources the size of theUS in Total War. Then again, Japan proved time and time again to be an irrational actor, so maybe they did.
Lonewolf_92
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How can this be true? Is it possible to be THAT brainwashed? To believe your leader doesn't perform normal human bodily functions? No way.....
"...it is alleged that Kim Jong-il was born on Mount Paektu at his father's secret base in 1942 (his actual birth was in 1941 in the Soviet Union) and that his birth was heralded by a swallow, caused winter to change to spring, a star to illuminate the sky, and a double rainbow spontaneously appeared."
Also the schools in North Korea are required to have halls set aside specifically for lectures about the leader and the propaganda is laid on thick at a young age. Propaganda + Little Real Education = A people who will believe that their leader they rarely see outside of pictures/statues/TV has magic powers.
Eh, it's questionable how much the NK people actually believe this shit. When speaking up against it will get you and your family sent off to the
Delta Assault
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There already was. It starred Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx.
So the main characters were tasked with killing the president?
Probably the same way Kennedy felt with "The Manchurian Candidate" or the way Bush Jr. felt with "That's my Bush". It's fiction, and honestly Obama has to deal with REAL people who talk about shooting him every other day to the point where I doubt a movie about it would be a blip on the radar.
Lionel Mandrake
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This discussion reminds me of the minor outrage over this movie.
Cameron122
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The only way North Korea could harm the united states in 1v1 war (lol hypotheticals) would be if a soldier choked on the dust formally known as the North Korean administration
JordanN
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WW3? What allies does North Korea have?
Venezuela and Cuba wouldn't dare of attacking the U.S.
Delicious Waffles
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He needs to mellow out. So salty.
I'm willing to bet it's more then every other day.
Pretty much anything makes Kim declare war on us, but I am starting to suspect he doesn't know if he knows what that means.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Think about why speaking up would be punished.
BloodMoney
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder how he feels about Team America World Police.
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