North Korea threatens to blow up White House because of Sony ‘Interview’ hacking

#sonyinterview North Korea has threatened to carry out strikes against the White House, Pentagon and "the whole US mainland" unless it withdraws its allegations that Pyongyang was responsible for the hacking of Sony Pictures that had planned to release the film The Interview on Christmas Day in America.
This film was a comedy that depicted the assassination of the North Korean leader and features James Franco and Seth Rogen as two journalists who are granted an audience with Kim Jong-Un and, the CIA then enlists the two of them to assassinate him.
US continues to insist that the hacking had been masterminded by North Koreans which Pyongyang does not accept.
In a fiery statement, North Korea has denied the US claims that it is behind cyber-attacks linked to a film that features the fictional killing of its leader Kim Jong-un. Of course, North Korea has a long history of issuing threats against the US and these latest threats comes days after the US formally accused the North of orchestrating a massive cyber-attack on Sony Pictures.
Due to the cyber-attack, the unreleased films The Interview and the script for the next James Bond film were leaked online apart from details of corporate finances and private emails between producers and Hollywood figures.
Incidentally, Pyongyang had offered to hold a joint inquiry with the US into the hacking but US president Barack Obama said that the US was considering putting North Korea back on its list of terrorism sponsors – this has angered Pyongyang still further.

Sony cancels release of The Interview - a film on North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un

#TheInterview #KimJongUn The film ‘The Interview’ is made by Sony and is one that mocks the regime of North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-Un. It was scheduled to be released in the United States on Christmas Day but, that has been put on hold.
The reason is that studio of Sony suffered a damaging cyber-attack and it had no other option but to pull out The Interview, because cinema chains across the US had backed away from showing the film.
The film depicts a plot to assassinate North Korean leader #KimJongUn and stars Seth Rogen and James Franco. As per reports, the group that claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack had made terrorist threats against US cinemas if they went ahead and showed the movie.
U S President Barack Obama has criticized this decision of Sony and remarked that he believed the studio had "made a mistake". He minced no words when he said that there cannot be a society in which some dictatorship someplace can start imposing censorship.
The decision of Sony has been criticized by celebrities and film makers as well.
Sony has clarified that it has only cancelled the Christmas Day release and is exploring alternatives to release the film on another platform and hopes that anyone who wants to see this movie will get the opportunity to do so.
It seems the FBI is of the opinion that the hacking had been done by North Korea and has termed it as an act of state-sponsored "intimidation" but Pyongyang has denied it. Of course, a North Korean diplomat said that the film affected the image of their country.