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Race Matters: N. Korea Says President Obama Is A “Monkey In A Tropical Forest”, Blames U.S. For Internet Crash

SMH N. Korea Refers To Obama As “Monkey”, Blames U.S. For Online Outage Via NYPost North Korea compared President Barack Obama to 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.” No surprise. No respect. Image via AP

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Race Matters: N. Korea Says President Obama Is A “Monkey In A Tropical Forest”, Blames U.S. For Internet Crash

[photos] Kim Jong Un angry at weathermen

Kim Jong Un has been visiting various meteorological facilities in the country, where he has reportedly taken employees to task for “too many incorrect” weather reports, reports CNN. Kim criticised the science used in observations and called for the use of modern equipment in the unusual rebuke, which came during an inspection of the Hydro-meteorological Service, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday. “There are many incorrect forecasts as the meteorological observati

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[photos] Kim Jong Un angry at weathermen

[photos] Kim Jong Un angry at weathermen

Kim Jong Un has been visiting various meteorological facilities in the country, where he has reportedly taken employees to task for “too many incorrect” weather reports, reports CNN. Kim criticised the science used in observations and called for the use of modern equipment in the unusual rebuke, which came during an inspection of the Hydro-meteorological Service, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday. “There are many incorrect forecasts as the meteorological observati

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[photos] Kim Jong Un angry at weathermen

North Korea threatens more punishment for American

North Korea threatened Thursday to increase punishment for an American who was sentenced to hard labor for illegally entering the country, citing what it called a hostile U.S. policy toward it. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, from Boston, was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified “hostile act.” The U.S. has asked North Korea to release him on humanitarian grounds. Thaleia Schlesinger, a spokeswoman for Gomes' family in Boston, said they had not heard the news and did not immediately have a comment. Communist North Korea has freed three other Americans detained for illegal entry, but ruled out Gomes' release amid tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship that Seoul and Washington have blamed on the North. South Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to censure North Korea over the sinking. The North denies it was responsible and has warned that any moves to punish it at the U.N. could lead to armed conflict and possibly nuclear war. The U.S. and South Korea have urged North Korea to avoid provocations and vowed to hold it accountable for the sinking of the warship in March, in which 46 South Korean sailors died. North Korea is examining what harsher measures to take against Gomes under a wartime law, and would be compelled to consider applying the law if the U.S. persists in its “hostile approach,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday. story continues http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_american_detained added by: Stoneyroad