N Korea Compares Obama to Monkey in Hacking Row
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North Korea compared President Barack Obama to a monkey, and blamed the US Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy "The Interview."
North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un Sony Pictures initially called off the release citing threats of terror attacks against US movie theaters. Obama criticized Sony's decision, and the movie has opened this week.
On Saturday, the North's powerful National Defense Commission, the country's top governing body led by Kim, said that Obama was behind the release of "The Interview." It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unidentified spokesman at the commission's Policy Department said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
It wasn't the first time North Korea has used crude insults against Obama and other top US and South Korean officials. Earlier this year, the North called US Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a "hideous" lantern jaw and South Korean President Park Geun-hye a prostitute. In May, the North's news agency published a dispatch saying Obama has the "shape of a monkey."
The defense commission also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korea websites this week, which happened after the US had promised to respond to the Sony hack. The US government has declined to say if it was behind the shutdown.
There was no immediate reaction from the White House on Saturday.
According to the North Korean commission's spokesman, "the US, a big country, started disturbing the Internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing a tag." DPRK refers to the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The commission said the movie was the result of a hostile US policy toward North Korea, and threatened the US with unspecified consequences.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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