Censorship on the United States Media
Does North Korea have a say on censorship in the United States? In 2014 the Sony-produced movie The Interview was released to the public for viewers' consumption. This would trigger multiple implications with North Korea and even get president Barrack Obama involved. Though it would be naive to say that Sony was blindsided by the backlash the movie would bring, there were many problems before the movie even came out. In June of 2014, 6 months before the release of The Interview, North Korea made a public statement saying the movie's release would be an " act of war ." North Korea was getting upset over the film because the movie planned to show a detailed death scene of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un. Kazuo Hirai, Sony's Japanese CEO, stated that he did not want the film to go public. Many renditions of the death scene were made before Sony got a green light. The Interview 's original set time to ...