North Korea has called United States’ President Barack Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy “The Interview.”
“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.
North Korea has denied its involvement in a crippling cyber attack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un. After Sony Pictures initially called off the release in a decision criticized by Obama, but the movie has been released this week.
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” and described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.
The spokesman also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korea websites this week, after the U.S. had promised to respond to the Sony hack.
United States have not reacted to the statement till now.