Sony pulls his film “The Interview” on dictator Kim Jong Un back to a hacker attack from North Korea. For Barack Obama, this is “a mistake”. “We will respond,” the US president announces. It should not be that “any dictator in any place” could prevail in the US censorship.
US President Barack Obama has North Korea because of the hacker attack threatened on the film company Sony consequences. He announced Friday an “appropriate response” and called it at the same time as a “mistake” that Sony had withdrawn the North Korea-satire “The Interview” by ominous terror threats.
Sony itself defended this decision again and declared that he would now release the film in other ways.
“Unacceptable intimidation”
At the heart of anger is a group called Guardians of Peace (GOP), which was the end of November a cyber attack on Sony launched and published internal documents and e-mails.
A few days ago, the group said, because of the satire “The Interview” in which it is about a murder plot against North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, ominous threats and recalled the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the USA. Several cinema chains then decided to take the film out of the planned program – whereupon Sony withdrew the theatrical release
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation made on Friday the government in Pyongyang directly responsible for the cyber attack and terrorist threats.. With the “intimidation” was moving North Korea “outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior of States,” it said.
“Any dictator at any location”
Obama later said to reporters, North Korea was responsible. “We will respond to it.” Sony also had “made a mistake” with the film stop. It should not be that could enforce “any dictator in any place” in the US censorship Obama said. Although
He had understanding of the concerns of Sony, but he would have wished that those responsible for the film company had previously spoken to him
Sony. “We did not give”
Sony rejected the accusation of having caved in, again decided and declared to have had “no choice” but the cancellation of the film. Without the cinemas no publication is now possible times. Sony CEO Michael Lynton told the CNN, the company had “not given”.
The President, the media and the public subject with their assessment of what “really happened” is wrong. He also said the company had with an advisor in the White House certainly had contact and talked about the situation.
United States consider “appropriate response” to Sony hacker attack
The group also said that at present to consider ways in which the film could be released in other ways. “It is still our hope that everyone who wants to see the film, also gets the opportunity to do so,” said Sony. Will discuss “a number of ways,” said Lynton, to show, among other things it for free in the portal YouTube.
North Korea itself, rejected the allegations from the USA. “Our country has no relationship with the hackers,” said the UN Mission in the country. Pyongyang has previously approved but the attack as “righteous act”. Sony had violated the film the “dignity” of governance
China. Senseless cultural arrogance
received backing North Korea from its ally China. The film “The Interview” is the result of a “senseless cultural arrogance,” it said on Saturday in an editorial in the quasi-government newspaper “Global Times”.
The film makes about Kim funny and was “not something Hollywood and the US company can be proud of.”
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