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© Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.U.S. considers putting N Korea back on terrorism sponsor list
By JOSH LEDERMAN HONOLULU©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ReformedBasher
It was taken off?
nath
'Hacker' is the term used by someone who knows what they are talking about, 'cyberhacker' is the term used by someone who wants to look like they know what they are talking about.
It's possible that some other entity did the hacking, but I wouldn't count your first sentence as evidence towards that fact. N. Korea would deny they did it whether they did it or not.
gogogo
Pulling it is a marketing stunt, they will get 100 times more people watching the movie now when they release it.
StormR
Just send in the S E A L team and end the misery the poor people of NK have to suffer because of this crack pot regime. It's been dragging on for generations and needs to be ended.
shallots
Superbad octupled it's budget. Pineapple Express quadrupled it's budget. Same goes for This Is the End. This would have made back it's budget at least. The creators have a proven record of success. But now that North Korea doesn't like their movies...
blvtzpk
It can be ended with 'the S E A L team'? Really? 'the S E A L team' against one of the world's largest standing armies? Really?
I'm no fan ofthe North Korean regime, but I think someone's been watching Team America a bit too much.
scoobydoo
So by that definition we know that by CYBERINTELEGENCE investigations North Korea did it? Hmmm I still think they don't have any real idea who it is
HonestDictator
Either way, the hack may not have been done directly by DPRK hacking team, but many of us do believe it was at least funded and supported by them.
Very few people cared about this movie before the hack n' threat, including me. Now a lot of people are incensed about it and want the film released. Even if this was a PR stunt by Sony Pictures it went too political in just a few days.
NK on the other hand just can't seem to keep its self diplomatically correct. They're now threatening attacks against the White House and the whole of US.
Wolfpack
I seriously doubt Obama would go against character and get tough on a dictator. He believes that it's best to make nice with dictators in order to entice them into becoming good global citizens.
Jimizo
'I seriously doubt Obama would go against character and get tough on a dictator. He believes that it's best to make nice with dictators in order to entice them into becoming good global citizens.'
Do you prefer kind of approach adopted with Saddam? Arm them with conventional and chemical weapons for a million dead war then remove them leaving the country in chaos? Much better.
Serrano
President Obama has just started a well-deserved Hawaii vacation - he doesn't need all this aggravation!
mataka
This evening, we see in the news that the muppets in NK have threatened direct attacks on the U.S. As reported on the BBC, NK imparts, "Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole US mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the 'symmetric counteraction' declared by Obama."
Would love to see them try.
This upping the ante might be a good excuse to finally remove ball-of-fat Kim, free the NK folks and end this red nonsense system that virtually died out everywhere else in the 1970s / 1980s. The cheesy graphics and rhetoric can die a death too, while we are at it.
jeff198527
Communism is a failed form of government. Let's put Cuba and North Korea out of their misery and be done with it.
toshiko
news: Houston and Atlanta ares theaters will show this movie. Sony stated that it did not cancel It is ready for showing. A theater owner did not say if metal detecters are used. He just said his theater will show.