Seoul: North Korea had generated a controversy after it called President of United States Barack Obama ‘a monkey’ and alleged US for shutting down its internet over the hacking row over the comedy “The Interview”.
Notify that North Korea has rejected 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.
Sony Pictures had later called off the release in a decision criticized by Obama, the movie has opened this week.
The country’s top governing body National Defense Commission led by Jong-un on Saturday said that Obama was behind the release of “The Interview”. It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.
In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, an unidentified spokesperson at the commission’s Policy Department said, “Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.”
He also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korea websites this week, after the US had promised to respond to the Sony hack.
Meanwhile White House had not given any immediate reaction over the issue on Saturday.
According to the North Korea commission’s spokesman, “the US, a big country, started disturbing the internet operation of major media of the DPRK [North Korea], not knowing shame like children playing a tag.”
Bureau Report
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