North Korea Military Body Outraged at a British TV Show

North Korea isn’t anyone’s favorite nation right now, and certain forms of popular entertainment are really going out of their way to remind you of that. Seth Rogen is coming out with a movie in which his and James Franco‘s characters get roped into a Kim Jong Un assassination plot. North Korea condemned this movie as an “act of war.”

And now, there’s a new British TV show taking place in North Korea. Late last month, Channel 4 greenlit the show, called Opposite Number. It’s about a British nuclear scientist who’s captured in North Korea and forced to help the government with its nuclear technology.

Well, North Korea’s National Defense Commission issued a statement condemning the show and calling it a slander against them.

In a statement, North Korea’s National Defense Commission spoke about the drama as “malignantly slandering” the country, and said it was “a conspiratorial charade painting a wrong picture” of the country.

It said the country’s nuclear weapons — referred to as the “treasured sword for self-defense” — were produced due to its “own efforts, technology and resources from A to Z.”

Well, look, at least this one doesn’t have James Franco in it. So… there’s that.

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