Piers Morgan calls out the wimps running America being held to ransom by North Korea and a couple of geeks

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One of the country’s leading entertainment businesses is being held to gruesome ransom. And the probable perpetrator is one of the world’s most despicable despots, Kim Jong-Un.

What’s at stake here is far more serious than the reputations of a few Hollywood players embarrassed by their emails being leaked.

(Let’s be honest, if any of our email inboxes suddenly got dumped into the public ether, we’d all be on a slow, humiliating boat to China pretty quickly..)

No, the battleground now has moved to a far bigger playing field, based on this fundamental question: can America stand up to a bullying, possibly tyrannical threat, or not?

Is the world’s No1 superpower just going to roll over and let whoever is doing this win?

Because that’s the way it looks to me right now.

The movie that caused all the problems, The Interview – a comedy which features an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-Un - was due to be launched with a glitzy premiere in New York this week.

But it’s been cancelled, for ‘safety reasons’.

The film’s two stars, Seth Rogen and James Franco, have pulled out of all interviews, also for ‘safety reasons’.

Now Sony’s announced it’s not going to release it all, caving into the pressure on its business.

To which my response is simple: what the **** is the matter with you all?

Where the hell is America’s legendary resilience and resolve?

A few crazy threats and everyone just surrenders?

Whether it’s a lone geeky lunatic doing this, or North Korea, the response should be very straightforward: ‘We’re releasing this movie, and we’re now going to market and promote it even more enthusiastically than we were planning to.’

That’s the message you send when people hold you to ransom.