North Korea compared President Barack Obama to “a monkey” over the weekend for encouraging Sony Pictures to release The Interview, a dark comedy about a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
A country spokesman also accused the U.S. of causing the Internet outage that caused North Korea in its entirety to go offline Dec. 22, but vehemently denied his country played a role in the Nov. 24 cyber-attack that shut down Sony Pictures’ systems across the globe.
“Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” a North Korea National Defense Commission spokesman said in a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency and reported by The Associated Press.
He added that The Interview is “a movie for agitating terrorism produced with high-ranking politicians of the U.S. administration involved.”
The president was strong in his opposition to Sony’s decision to cancel the theatrical release of the film in response to the state-sponsored threats that any theater that played The Interview would be attacked.
“If we set a precedent in which a dictator in another country can disrupt, through cyber, you know, a company’s distribution chain or its products and, as a consequence, we start censoring ourselves, that’s a problem,” the president said in an interview with Candy Crowley Dec. 21 on CNN’s State of the Union.
“You know, sometimes this is a matter of setting a tone and being very clear that we’re not going to be intimidated by some, you know, cyber-hackers. And I expect all of us to remember that and operate on that basis going forward.”
The president also said the United States would “respond proportionately,” to the cyber-attack and threats although he did not say exactly what the response would be.
North Korea said it believes its Internet outage was retaliation from the U.S.
“If the U.S. persists in American-style arrogant, high-handed and gangster-like arbitrary practices despite (North Korea’s) repeated warnings, the U.S. should bear in mind that its failed political affairs will face inescapable deadly blows,” the North Korean spokesman said.
The spokesman accused the FBI and other U.S. government agencies of linking the Sony hacking to North Korea “without clear evidence.”
Although the White House has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the Internet outage, experts have said it is unlikely to be the work of the U.S. government because a state-sponsored attack would have prevented North Korea for getting back online so quickly.
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North Korea Compares Obama to ‘a Monkey’ for Stance on The Interview
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