North Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, calls Obama a 'monkey'

[DemocratSinceBirth]

(Reuters) - North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a "monkey" and blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.

The National Defence Commission, the North's ruling body, chaired by state leader Kim Jong Un, said Obama was responsible for Sony's belated decision to release the action comedy "The Interview", which depicts a plot to assassinate Kim.

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unnamed spokesman for the commission said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, using a term seemingly designed to cause racial offence that North Korea has resorted to before.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/27/us-northkorea-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0K502920141227

I take umbrage at those comments and after reading a couple of books about the hermit kingdom my heart bleeds for anybody who has to live in that shithole .

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Coming from a government that pays homage to a Worm .

[Flo Mingo]

2. Let the Republican praise of Kim Jong Un begin

Strong leader....Says what he means and means what he says.

Calls a spade a spade.

Schooling Obama on diplomacy.

[Igel]

3. The immediate response should be short and pithy.

"Either North Korea retracts this scandalous claim immediately, or they open a joint investigation and allow the appropriate US agencies full, unfettered access to both the entirety of their evidence as well as to the methods and techniques used in obtaining this evidence. Any other action will be met with a stern and harsh response."


There was a short video documentary released over the summer by some prominent Russian politician--I don't recall if he's a member of Putin's party and administration or an ally. To a soundtrack with "patriotic" music and words of praise, it showed clean, wide streets, monumental architecture, neat and clean, well-dressed people sticking to the sidewalks and abiding by all the rules. In the countryside it showed hardworking, smiling peasants in straight lines in the fields, sowing, weeding, and harvesting their crops for the public good. The guy lamented that the USSR was no longer like that. Separately, some other allied politician called for properly funding and supporting the sovkhozes and a return to subbotniki or "volunteer Saturdays" (in which students and some workers, typically more white-collar, were bused out to the fields to help with the harvest).

The Putinesca affection for N. Korea goes back to a bit more than just "we don't like the US' Ukraine policy". I can only imagine how they feel about some of the German propaganda videos (if you take away the swastikas or overlay pictures of the CPSU's idols, Lenin and/or Stalin in their place they look like Soviet propaganda videos).