North Korea’s foreign ministry is declaring that the upcoming release of “The Interview,” a comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco as a talk show twosome recruited to assassinate Kim Jong Un, would be an act of war. This is not the first time the nation’s leadership has been poked at in pop culture. After the release of the 2002 James Bond film “Die Another Day,” North Korea’s state-run news agency called the movie “a dirty and cursed burlesque aimed to slander.” More recently, a new video game set for release later this year is called “Glorious Leader!” in which players portray a unicorn- and narwhal-riding Kim Jong Un, who must battle waves of “American imperialist hordes.”
