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AFP “North Korea calls new Channel 4 show a 'slanderous farce'” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/01/north-korea-channel-4-opposite-number

北朝鮮が英国のチャンネル４*1のTVドラマをめぐって、英国政府にいちゃもんをつけているそうな。

North Korea has slammed a new British TV drama series featuring its nuclear weapons programme, urging the British government to scrap the “slanderous farce” if it wants to maintain diplomatic ties.

Opposite Number – a series commissioned by Channel 4*2 and announced last month – features a British nuclear scientist character who is captured in the North during a covert mission and forced to help weaponise its nuclear technology.

The 10-part series*3 is written by British screenwriter Matt Charman, and will take viewers inside the “closed worlds of North Korea” with “opposing CIA and MI6 agents secretly deployed on the ground in Pyongyang, as the clock ticks on a global-scale nuclear crisis”, Channel 4 said on its website.

The TV show is “nothing but a slanderous farce” to insult and distort the North’s nuclear capability, said the country’s top military body, the National Defence Commission (NDC).

The North is already armed with “unimaginably powerful nuclear weaponry” and has no need of foreign technology, the NDC spokesman said in a statement carried by the state news agency.

In the English version of the statement*4, the official said the programme was being “orchestrated at the tacit connivance, patronage and instigation by ‘Downing Street’”.

They called on the UK authorities to “throw these reactionary movies... into a cesspit and punish those behind the projects if it wants to... help maintain the bilateral relations,” he said.

北朝鮮は６月にも某ハリウッド産コメディ映画を巡って米国政府に向かって吼えていたのだった。
Ben Beaumont-Thomas “North Korea complains to UN about Seth Rogen comedy The Interview”*5から；

North Korea has complained to the United Nations about The Interview, a forthcoming Hollywood comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, on the grounds that it promotes terrorism against the country.

In the film, a TV host (Franco) and his producer (Rogen) manage to secure an interview with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea – only to find themselves hired by the CIA to assassinate him. Despite clearly being in the comic stoner-quest lineage of the pair's films Pineapple Express and This Is the End, North Korea isn't laughing.

"To allow the production and distribution of such a film on the assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign state should be regarded as the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war," UN ambassador Ja Song Nam told UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in a letter, according to Reuters*6. "The United States authorities should take immediate and appropriate actions to ban the production and distribution of the aforementioned film; otherwise, it will be fully responsible for encouraging and sponsoring terrorism."

See also

Ben Child “North Korea rubbishes Seth Rogen comedy The Interview” http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/20/seth-rogen-north-korea-the-interview-kim-jong-un
Justin McCurry “North Korea threatens 'merciless' response over Seth Rogen film” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/north-korea-merciless-response-us-kim-jong-un-film
Ben Child “Kim Jong-un face-melting may be wiped from Seth Rogen's The Interview” http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/14/kim-jong-un-face-melting-seth-rogen-the-interview

このThe Interviewに主演しているSeth Rogen*7は『功夫熊猫』*8にも出ていたのね。James Franco*9はガス・ヴァン・サントの『ミルク』でハーヴェイ・ミルクの恋人役を演じていたのだった。

カンフー・パンダ スペシャル・エディション [DVD]

カンフー・パンダ２ [DVD]

ミルク [DVD]

*1:http://www.channel4.com/

*2:See Leo Barraclough “U.K.’s Channel 4 Detonates North Korean Thriller ‘Opposite Number’” http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/u-k-s-channel-4-detonates-north-korean-thriller-opposite-number-1201288200/

*3:See http://deadline.com/2014/08/edinburgh-channel-4-north-korea-opposite-number-matt-charman-822720/

*4:“British Plan for Producing Anti-DPRK Movie under Fire” http://kcnawatch.nknews.org/article/er48

*5:http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/10/north-korea-un-the-interview-seth-rogen-james-franco

*6:“North Korea complains to UN about film starring Rogen, Franco” http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/09/uk-northkorea-un-film-idUKKBN0FE21B20140709

*7:See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Rogen http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3

*8:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080622/1214071437 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080625/1214362671 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20081023/1224739582 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130611/1370928856

*9:See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3