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SEOUL, South Korea North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on 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 U.S. 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 U.S. and South Korean officials. Earlier this year, the North called U.S. 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."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/26/world/asia/ap-as-nkorea-sony-hacking.html
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 U.S. 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 U.S. and South Korean officials. Earlier this year, the North called U.S. 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."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/26/world/asia/ap-as-nkorea-sony-hacking.html
Kim Jong-un is like an evil dictator whose mental maturity was stunted in adolescence by falling on his head. I don't understand why he would ever be concerned about a parody movie about him, his real life actions are a compilation of every Hollywood cheesy villain ever created. Hollywood will never be able to compete with that. Ever. He's like a living combination of Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond movies, and Dr. Evil from Austin Powers. If he weren't responsible for the suffering of around 24 million people it would be comical, but as it is it's just sad and depressing.
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N. Korea Calls Obama 'Monkey' in Hacking Row (Original Post)
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Dec 2014
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daredtowork
(3,732 posts)1. N.K. just wishes their opinions were relevant
It's all about Anonymous vs. Lizard Squad now.
http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-to-lizard-squad-stop-attacking-tor-2014-12
Cha
(297,261 posts)2. Yeah, they sound like the idiots rw in America.
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)3. The Tea Party has a new international favorite.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)4. The North has no love loss for Park Geun-hye
Her father was a ruthless dictator in the 60's and 70's before one of his own men turned and pulled a gun on him and shot him. She is almost as bad as freedom of the press and freedom of speech is slowly being crushed here in South Korea. I have a sneaking suspicion that things are going to get worse over the next few years.
spanone
(135,838 posts)5. so north korea is a republican state?
rock
(13,218 posts)6. Obama is too tall to be a monkey
If they just had monkies in North Korea, they'd know how short they are (or something else that short, hmmm).