North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm and Taedonggang Combined Fruit Processing Factory together with Ri Sol Ju in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang June 5, 2014. REUTERS/KCNA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday denounced a forthcoming American comedy film featuring a plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un as an act of terrorism and threatened to unleash a "merciless counter-measure" if Washington failed to ban the movie.
The movie "The Interview", starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, is scheduled for release in October this fall.
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