North Korea led cyberattack against Sony: source

Randall Park portrays Kim Jong-Un in Seth Rogen and James Franco's new movie 'The Interview.'

Sony Pictures Entertainment Randall Park describes Kim Jong-Un in Seth Rogen and James Franco’s new movie ‘The Interview.’

Hacked emails exposed a fiery internal debate over the cinematic killing of Kim Jong-Un in the upcoming movie “The Interview” — including information from a State Department official.

The Day after day Beast reported Wednesday that Sony executives reached out to the federal official, along with the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, when considering the movie’s controversial closing scene.

Sony had also contacted Bruce Bennett, a RAND Corp. analyst and specialist on North Korea.

Bennett saw the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy with its original ending: a missile hitting the North Korean leader’s helicopter before his head catches fire and explodes.

Bennett, in a June 25 email, said that toning down the ending might mitigate the movie’s propaganda value in Kim’s homeland.

“I believe that a report that discussion about the removal of the Kim family regime and the creation of a new regime by the North Korean people (well, at least the elites) will still some real thinking in South Korea and, I believe, in the North once the DVD leaks,” he wrote.

“So from a personal perspective, I would in person prefer to leave the ending alone.”

Sony CEO Michael Lynton responded that same day that Bennett’s view was shared by at least one Washington insider.

Ed Araquel Kim Jong-Un (c.) in a scene from ‘The Interview.’

“Spoke to someone very senior in State (confidentially),” Lynton answered that same day. “He agreed with everything you have been saying. Everything.”

A State Department spokesperson did not immediately restore a call for note on The Day after day Beast report.

The report went on to details nervous emails from Lynton and other Sony execs about scaling back the comedy’s over-the-top height.

“What we really want is no melting face and not really considering him die,” Lynton wrote on July 9 to Sony Pictures Entertainment Vice Chairman Amy Pascal. “A look of horror as the fire approaches is probably what you need.”

Rogen capitulated to a degree after months of back and into the world with Pascal.

“We will make it less gory,” he wrote on Sept. 25. “There are currently four burn marks on his face. We will take out three of them … We lower the flaming hair by 50%.

“The head explosion can’t be more obscured because we honestly feel that if it’s any more obscured you won’t be able to tell its exploding and the joke won’t work.”

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