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          “Sony has made a mistake”: Obama criticized the withdrawal of North Korea satire “The Interview”
     

 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
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US President Barack Obama has the cancellation of the North Korea-satire film “The Interview” criticized after a hacker attack and terrorist threats. The film studio Sony Pictures had thus “made mistakes” an Obama said on Friday during his year-end press conference at the White House in Washington.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

He could understand the concerns of Sony though, but would have preferred that the film studio would have decided differently. “We can not live in a society in which any dictator starts somewhere to exercise censorship in the United States.” Obama confirmed that according to US information North Korea was behind the hacking attack. “We will respond accordingly when and how we want it.” But he did not want to make public details, Obama said. The FBI had made the government in Pyongyang directly responsible for the cyber attack and terrorist threats before. With the “intimidation” was moving North Korea “outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior of states”, said the FBI.

                         
         
         
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Sony rejected the criticism. “We are not caved in,” said the head of the American film subsidiary Sony Pictures, Michael Lynton, on Friday, CNN. “The president, the press and the public are wrong when it comes to the actual course.” Sony does not control cinema and could not decide which films would shown. Obama’s remarks were disappointing, Lynton said. He was not sure whether the president really understand what led to the cancellation. “Therefore, I disagree with the view that it was a mistake.”

                         
         
         
                                                             

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A group called Guardians of Peace (GOP) had late November a cyber attack on Sony launched and published internal documents and e-mails from the production company on the Internet. A few days ago, the group said, because “The Interview” then ominous threats and recalled the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Sony pulled the planned for the first day of Christmas theatrical release of the film back. In “The Interview” is about a fictional murder plot against North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.

                         
         
         
                                                             

The Obama tried to make its own people hope. His country could go into the new year with fresh confidence. 2014 was a year of action and the breakthrough for the United States, Obama said. He cited as examples progress in economic development, health insurance and the labor market. In foreign policy, America would taken the lead in the fight against terror militia Islamic State and other fields. There is still much to do, Obama said.

                         
         
         
                                                                                               

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