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Tensions between the USA and North Korea are rising the cyber-attack on the film company Sony Pictures, and the decision by Sony to cancel all of its movie 'The Interview'. The cancelled film is a political comedy about two US journalists who arrange an with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with the of assassinating him. A group calling itself The Guardians of Peace has claimed for the attack. It warned that it would attack 9/11 any cinema that showed the movie. It also threatened Sony that it would put more confidential that could damage the company if it did not pull the movie.

Sony canceled the of its movie "in the interests of public " after several US cinema refused to screen it. This has caused a of protest in America. President Obama said: "We cannot have a in which some dictators some place can start imposing here." He added: "Imagine what they start doing once they see a that they don't like or news reports that they don't like." Senator John McCain called the cyber-attack "an act of " and "the greatest blow to free speech" he had seen in his lifetime. Another politician said: "America has lost its first cyber-war." Actor Rob Lowe tweeted: "Everyone caved [in]. The won. An utter and complete for them."

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