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Monday 26 January 2015

Cambodia asked [by North Korea] to ban 'The Interview'

North Korea has asked Cambodia to ban the sales and screening of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc's controversial comedy about an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the movie insults Kim, according to a government document released Sunday. 
The document, which was addressed to Cambodia's Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, said the North Korean Embassy in Phnom Penh sent a diplomatic note to Cambodia's Foreign Ministry on Jan 8 explaining that "The Interview" is being copied from the Internet and circulated in some markets in Cambodia.
"North Korea considers that such circulation is conspired by an unfriendly force which may lead to the damage of traditional relations between the two countries," said a letter signed by Long Visalo, secretary of state of Cambodia's Foreign Ministry, referring to the note from the North Korean Embassy.
In the note, Pyongyang requested that Phnom Penh take action by stopping the sales of the movie and preventing it from being shown on television or screened at movie theaters.
The film, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco as journalists hired by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Kim, was made available online and released at some theaters in the United States on Dec 24.
Sony Pictures at one point canceled its plans to release the film due to threats by hackers to attack theaters that screen the film, but decided to show it at a limited number of theaters after US President Barack Obama criticized the company's earlier decision to pull it.

North Korea has repeatedly cried foul against the United States and Sony Pictures for making this movie.

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