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. After Sony Pictures
initially called off the release in a decision
criticized by Obama, 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.
"If the U.S. is to persistently insist that the
hacking attack was made by the DPRK, the U.S.
should produce evidence without fail, though
belatedly," the statement publish by KCNA said.
He also accused Washington for intermittent
outages of North Korea websites this week, after
the U.S. had promised to respond to the Sony hack.
There was no immediate reaction from the White House on Saturday.
According to the North Korea commission's
spokesman, "the U.S., a big country, started
disturbing the Internet operation of major media
of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing a tag."
The commission said the movie was the results of a
hostile U.S. policy toward North Korea, and
threatened the U.S. with unspecified
consequences.
North Korea and the U.S. remain technically in a
state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War
ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The
rivals also are locked in an international standoff
over the North's nuclear and missile programs and
its alleged human rights abuses. The U.S. stations
about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deterrence
against North Korean aggression.
Source: Associated Press
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