The North Korean government continued to blame President Barack Obama and the U.S. for The Interview in a statement released on Saturday in which Obama is referred to as "a monkey" and “the chief culprit” in getting the movie made.
The movie, in which Seth Rogen and James Franco's characters attempt to kill North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, was given a limited release on Christmas day after Sony had initially canceled the release after threats from hackers.
“Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” the National Defense Administration, North Korea’s ruling body headed by Kim Jong-un, said in a statement to the government-run KCNA news agency.
The statement also blamed the U.S. for recent widespread Internet outages in North Korea.
It's not the first time the North Korean regime has called Obama a monkey, or insulted officials from other nations. Earlier this year, the news agency referred to Obama as "a wicked black monkey" and a "crossbreed" and said he had the "shape of a monkey."
That dispatch also called Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a "hideous lantern jaw," and labeled South Korean President Park Geun-hye "an old prostitute."
[Via Washington Post]
