Even if NK has poorly designed Nukes, its still a nuke. It may not be as powerful as intended to be, but its still a nuke that has the potential to kill someone, or several someones. Maybe not a city like New York, but it could still do damage.
Even if it completely fails to explode or anything of the like, it could do damage upon impact.
Not to mention, like I said before, assuming WE attack them too, there'd be a lot of deaths.
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What if this is a Duck Soup ploy and Un is using this film as an excuse?
Oh goody, just what we need. Another war. Maybe that's the plan, keep the movie from making any money by keeping all the able bodies too busy fighting to watch it?
......So there was this upcoming movie that looked pretty funny.
Overlording the Underworld
People will go see it as much because of the threat as the movie itself, and when all's done, people will probably remember the fact of the threat of war for far longer than they remember this movie. Well, the joke of war, not necessarily threat. If NK did anything, they'd be broken.
Uniocular
Yeah, some people are definitely blowing this out of proportion.
Still, is it bad that I kind of want North Korea to declare war over this movie?
Just so history books can have a section about "the war that was caused by a Seth Rogen movie."
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Overlording the Underworld
While there are different cultures in different countries, it's pretty common for Asian ones to use understatement. Seriously, try getting a born and raised Japanese person to actually say the word No. They don't do it. They hedge . . .
So it's not necessarily blowing this out of proportion to say that that statement actually WAS a declaration of war. Veiled, yes, but still a threat. The only reason NK hasn't tried conquering the world to begin with is because they KNOW they're a piranha surrounded by sharks.
The Permanently Confused
I dunno, portions of that article scream "wishful thinking" to me. Like "They're probably talking about if Obama personally screens the movie" and "They'll just make a movie about killing Obama".
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Agreed. It may not word for word be a threat of war, but its certainly thinly-veiled enough and uses enough words without explanation that I don't think its entirely illogical to interpret it as a threat of war. Its certainly not on the level originally reported of 'merciless' all out war' and etc, but I really don't think that NK would care much if Obama PERSONALLY views the film while his entire country makes it #1 Movie in North America for a month. That's just being optimistic and almost stupidly so.
My Morbid Curiosity wants this to actually spark a war, if just to see what would happen, but I know that would result in a lot things I don't want to see and I feel guilty but honest saying that.
Still, its absolutely hilarious that, in calling out a film as being 'offensive', N.K. has ironically ensured that everyone in America will be discussing this movie and probably going to go see it as the movie 'that could have started a war'. I'm sure their marketing campaign will pick up on it too. N.K. would have been better off quietly writing them a check.
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But guys were missing a major point. IS THE MOVIE ANY GOOD?
Overlording the Underworld
Since when is that relevant? 
We won't know until it comes out, so for now we're just poking fun at the political issues from it. Since trailers both lie and spoil movies at the same time, we can't trust anything until it comes out and we see it.
Imagine if the plot turns out to be that the two assassins get over there and find Kim Jong-Un to be a pretty swell guy and that actually all the propaganda about how perfect the leader is has in fact been true. After seeing him bowl a 300, get 18 holes in one and delivering a fantastic stand up comedy routine, Un takes them back to his place where he shares some brandy and talks about how much he's trying to improve his country.
Then North Korea declares it to be one of the finest comedies of all time and declares its 14% Rotten Tomato score as an act of terrorism.
I would die of laugher.
Good lord... I want to sit back with Popcorn for this one.
If it wasn't actually word-for-word being declared as an 'act of war' before, it has now.
Not really. North Korea is just being its usual whiny little bitch self.
Which is why NK thinks its a bright idea to declare the movie an act of war.
"In distress", my ass.
^ Well, that they thought filing a complaint (or anything, really) with the UN would actually matter beyond a propaganda piece to sell its own citizens suggests that NK isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer to start with.
A procrastination in of itself
Keep in mind that they filed the complaint with the Secretary General, who is South Korean. Yeah that complaint isn't going to go anywhere.
According to Wikipedia it holds 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
edited 16th Dec '14 3:39:55 PM by RainingMetal
It's currently at 46% (6 positive reviews, 7 negative ones). The general view seems to be that it's not a very strong satire and the jokes are mostly unrelated to the premise, and the plot kind of drags.
Nobody, but if North Korea is going to commit suicide (and that's what this would be) than it needs a motive, the most likely motive is an ongoing (or impending) war that will destroy North Korea.
Now you're idea would work if Chinese ports were available, but that's a big ask. That requires the Norks to be able to smuggle a nuclear device into a Chinese port without anybody noticing. That means they have to move to device from where it's stored, get it to the border, get it across the border, get it to the port, get it though the port and onto the ship without anyone in either Chinese of Western intelligence noticing. The Chinese government is corrupt, but I seriously doubt it's corrupt enough to let a temperamental foreign power smuggle a nuclear device of unknown reliability into their country.
If you're giving the Norks the ability to get a nuclear device undetected though a major port than smuggling it though China would be silly, put it on a freighter to China then switch freighter to a different one and proceed from there. But that still requires the Chinese authorities to be so corrupt/incompetent that they don't notice a nuclear device sitting in their port.
Bolt from the blue attacks are scary, but they require motive, and North Korea has no motive to commit suicide.
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