Things that annoy North Korea, Christmas trees, soap operas and K-pop
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(CNN) -- North Korea's fury over the movie comedy "The Interview" appears to have taken the secretive state's oversensitivity to new extremes.
Kim Jong Un's regime had already branded the film "the most undisguised terrorism and a war action." Now, the U.S. government is set to blame Pyongyang for the hacking of Sony Pictures, the studio responsible for the movie starring Seth Rogen and James Franco that shows the assassination of Kim. Sony has pulled the film after a threat was made against people going to see it in theaters.
"North Korea has provided a new gold standard for weakness in international politics: a state that feels threatened by a Seth Rogen movie," tweeted Jennifer Lind, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who specializes in East Asian security issues. North Korea reserves most of its rage for matters like U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program and U.S.-South Korean military drills near its borders. But "The Interview" isn't the first case of Pyongyang freaking out over seemingly innocuous things. Here are some striking examples: The festive season is rarely full of cheer across the heavily armed border between North and South Korea, known as the demilitarized zone. Christmas decorations put up on the South Korean side have become a recurring sore point. Pyongyang especially disliked a 30-meter tower in the shape of a Christmas tree that sat atop a hill with tens of thousands of lights that could be seen from well inside North Korean territory.
The North reportedly said the decorations were an attempt to spread religion over the border and, in 2011, threatened "unexpected consequences" if the lights were turned on. South Korean authorities recently took down the ageing structure, but they have approved plans by a Christian group to build a new tower. North Korea's track record of "Bah! Humbug!" goes back decades -- it was objecting to Christmas trees at the border as long ago as the 1960s. A report in The New York Times from 1964 said Pyongyang had also complained about American troops throwing snowballs at North Korean soldiers around the demilitarized zone.
North Korea is well known for its efforts to rigidly control what information from outside its borders filters through to its citizens. But that apparently doesn't stop some of them from eagerly seeking out illicit copies of TV shows from South Korea and other countries. South Korean dramas are reported to be particularly popular
As relations between the two Koreas soured in 2010 after the sinking of a South Korean warship, Seoul retaliated by broadcasting an anti-North Korean radio show. The broadcast opened with a pop song from the South Korean girl band Four Minute.
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(CNN) -- North Korea's fury over the movie comedy "The Interview" appears to have taken the secretive state's oversensitivity to new extremes.
Kim Jong Un's regime had already branded the film "the most undisguised terrorism and a war action." Now, the U.S. government is set to blame Pyongyang for the hacking of Sony Pictures, the studio responsible for the movie starring Seth Rogen and James Franco that shows the assassination of Kim. Sony has pulled the film after a threat was made against people going to see it in theaters.
"North Korea has provided a new gold standard for weakness in international politics: a state that feels threatened by a Seth Rogen movie," tweeted Jennifer Lind, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who specializes in East Asian security issues. North Korea reserves most of its rage for matters like U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program and U.S.-South Korean military drills near its borders. But "The Interview" isn't the first case of Pyongyang freaking out over seemingly innocuous things. Here are some striking examples: The festive season is rarely full of cheer across the heavily armed border between North and South Korea, known as the demilitarized zone. Christmas decorations put up on the South Korean side have become a recurring sore point. Pyongyang especially disliked a 30-meter tower in the shape of a Christmas tree that sat atop a hill with tens of thousands of lights that could be seen from well inside North Korean territory.
The North reportedly said the decorations were an attempt to spread religion over the border and, in 2011, threatened "unexpected consequences" if the lights were turned on. South Korean authorities recently took down the ageing structure, but they have approved plans by a Christian group to build a new tower. North Korea's track record of "Bah! Humbug!" goes back decades -- it was objecting to Christmas trees at the border as long ago as the 1960s. A report in The New York Times from 1964 said Pyongyang had also complained about American troops throwing snowballs at North Korean soldiers around the demilitarized zone.
North Korea is well known for its efforts to rigidly control what information from outside its borders filters through to its citizens. But that apparently doesn't stop some of them from eagerly seeking out illicit copies of TV shows from South Korea and other countries. South Korean dramas are reported to be particularly popular
As relations between the two Koreas soured in 2010 after the sinking of a South Korean warship, Seoul retaliated by broadcasting an anti-North Korean radio show. The broadcast opened with a pop song from the South Korean girl band Four Minute.
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- published: 18 Dec 2014
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