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Xinhua

North Korea yesterday called US President Barack Obama a "monkey" for inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, as the nation suffered a second internet shutdown.
The North, whose internet was down for at least two hours yesterday according to Chinese state media, had blamed Washington for an initial internet blackout last week.
The isolated dictatorship's powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) threatened "inescapable deadly blows" over the film and accused the United States of "disturbing the internet operation" of North Korean media outlets.
Last week's internet outage triggered speculation that US authorities might have launched a cyber-attack in retaliation for the hacking of Sony Pictures - the studio behind madcap comedy The Interview.
Washington has said the attack on Sony was carried out by Pyongyang.

The NDC accused Obama of taking the lead in encouraging cinemas to screen The Interview on Christmas Day. "Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," a spokesman for the NDC's policy department said in a statement published by the official Korean Central News Agency.
"If the US persists in American-style arrogant, high-handed and gangster-like arbitrary practices despite [North Korea's] repeated warnings, the US should bear in mind that its failed political affairs will face inescapable deadly blows," the NDC spokesman said.
He accused Washington of linking the hacking of Sony to North Korea "without clear evidence" and described the film as "a movie for agitating terrorism, produced with high-ranking politicians of the US administration involved".
The NDC spokesman called again for a joint investigation into the Sony hack, which has already been rejected by the US government, while accusing Washington of "beating air after being hit hard by others".
"In actuality the US, a big country, started disturbing the internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing a tag," he said.

From Monday night, websites of North Korea's major state media went dead for hours.
The cause of the outages in the country's already limited internet access has not been confirmed. The US has refused to say whether it was involved in the shutdown.
North Korea has about a million computers - mainly available at educational and state institutions - but most lack any connection to the world wide web.
KCNA previously compared Obama to a black "monkey" in a zoo in May, prompting Washington to condemn the comments.
The North Korean mouthpiece earlier this year called South Korean President Park Geun-hye a "prostitute" in thrall to her "pimp" Obama.
Reporting from AFP, Xinhua


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North Korea called US President Barack Obama a "monkey" for inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader.


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North Korea called US President Barack Obama a "monkey" for inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader.