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Considering they have performed assassinations outside of their soil, I would be slightly concerned.

They assassinated a potential rival for the throne. The situations are not even remotely similar.

Killing a US citizen on US soil would not go down well.

India killed a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil... What exactly would the US do to North Korea that we haven't done already?

The film The Interview was released in 2014. Ten years later, Seth Rogen and James Franco are still alive.

> North Korean state media threatened "merciless" retaliation for his depiction in the film. Seth Rogen responded, "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interview

Where is the merciless retaliation? Keep in mind this film has a graphic scene where Kim Jong Un dies…

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