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North Korea Cyber Terrorist Attack on the U.S.
Obama speaks out on the North Korea hacking of Sony he said Sony made a mistake in canceling its plan to release the Film “The Interview” on Christmas Day.
The Interview is a 2014 American political action comedy film directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, and written by Dan Sterling. The film stars Rogen and James Franco as journalists instructed to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (played by Randall Park) after booking an interview with him.
The film received attention for its negative portrayal of Kim Jong-un. In June 2014, threats of “merciless” action against the United States were made if its distributor, Columbia Pictures, went ahead with the film’s release. Columbia delayed the planned October 3, 2014, release to December 25 to digitally alter thousands of buttons worn by the North Korean military. In November 2014, the computer systems of parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment were hacked by a group with ties to North Korea. After leaking several other then-upcoming Sony films, the group demanded that Sony pull The Interview, which it referred to as “the movie of terrorism”. On December 16, 2014, the group threatened terrorist attacks against cinemas that played it.
In response to the threats, Rogen and Franco canceled a series of promotional appearances for the film, and Sony stated that it would not object to cinemas pulling The Interview in the interest of safety. On December 17, 2014, after a number of major North American cinema chains pulled the film, Sony canceled the release. On 19 December 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it believed the North Korean state was behind the hacking of Sony’s computers.
