North Korea has accused the US of conniving with the makers of the controversial film The Interview to “hurt the dignity” of the country’s supreme leadership and threatened to “blow up” the White House.
North Korea threatened more attacks against the US Government and other American institutions in the wake of the Nov 24 cyber attack on Sony Picture Entertainment, which resulted in the movie’s release being cancelled, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.
The country’s Government, which was outraged by the film showing a fictitious US plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed to have “clear evidence” that the US Government engineered the project as a “propaganda” attack against the country. In June, a spokesman for Pyongyang had called the film an “act of war”.
Referring to the US as a “cesspool of terrorism”, the Communist dictatorship said that it has already lashed out at the “citadels of the US imperialists”, naming the White House and the Pentagon in particular. “The DPRK (North Korea) has already launched the toughest counteraction,” a release said.