The Interview is a film that had been filmed with the feedback, if not direct manipulations, of the State Department, and ends in the brutal assassination of the leader of North Korea. A South Korean activist said he had launched thousands of copies of the Hollywood film into North Korea by balloon after police blocked a previous attempt.
The unpublicised launch was carried out at around midnight on Wednesday in Gimpo, close to the western tip of the heavily fortified border, said defector-turned-activist Park Sang-hak.
The balloons carried hundreds of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets, as well as 5,000 DVDs and 5,000 USB ports containing copies of the comedy about a fictional CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Pyongyang has slammed the film as a “wanton act of terror” and threatened dire consequences if any attempt was made to distribute the film in the North. “Dire consequences” seem to include flailing about helplessly…
All this is not unexpected, because according to a hacked Sony correspondence, Bruce Bennett (a senior defence analyst at the RAND Corporation) had insisted on ensuring that the brutal ending was kept in order to foment a revolution in the North. His line of thinking was commended by “someone very senior in State”, who likely green-lighted the film:
Bruce Bennet said, “In fact, when I have briefed my book on ‘preparing for the possibility of a North Korean collapse’ [Sept 2013], I have been clear that the assassination of Kim Jong-Un is the most likely path to a collapse of the North Korean government. Thus while toning down the ending may reduce the North Korean response, I believe that a story that talks about the removal of the Kim family regime and the creation of a new government by the North Korean people (well, at least the elites) will start some real thinking in South Korea and, I believe, in the North once the DVD leaks into the North (which it almost certainly will). So from a personal perspective, I would personally prefer to leave the ending alone.”
This hidden purpose for the film would be ineffective without a means of actually transmitting the video to the North Koreans. And surprise, surprise, South Koreans “found” a means of transmission, something that Brennet had somehow predicted.
It should be noted that Sony’s copyright is being breached via this method of distribution, yet the usually overly-protective sue-happy company has not had much to say on this matter. The use of balloons as a means of distributing propaganda also has a long and storied history by US-affiliated NGOs.
The main argument of advocates of the movie is that it is a harmless flick intended solely to entertain; poor old America is simply standing up for Freedom of Speech… It is becoming clear that this is not true, that the intent of the film was propaganda from the beginning; it is poor form for a despotic regime to be the side that is telling the truth, while America gets to choose when and where regime change occurs, for its own purposes.
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Source: The Star
This article is so horribly written it’s insane
Anonymous didnt write it. The Star did.
Horribly written or not, I think Kim Jong Un deserved it. I wonder what his face might have looked like when he watched the film. Hmmm…