Even though McDonalds has been banned from North Korea since 2006, when the United Nations imposed sanctions against the country, Kim Jong-un remains partial to the occasional Big Mac. Along with other members of the official regime, the Dear Leader uses the state airline to deliver burgers to his home. By an extraordinary coincidence, Kim Jong-un was portrayed as an overweight slob in The Interview, a comedy starring one-time McDonalds employee James Franco, which apparently upset the ruler. Before the pictures release, an organization calling themselves the Guardians Of Peace, who the FBI claimed had links with North Korea, threatened to wage war on cinemas showing the film, scuppering its nationwide release. Ronald McDonald, Chief Happiness Officer of the McDonalds all-American restaurant chain since 2003, declined to comment.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'