{"id":18196,"date":"2014-12-27T03:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T03:12:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:16:18","slug":"north-korea-compares-obama-to-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=18196","title":{"rendered":"North Korea compares Obama to a monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>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 \u201cThe Interview.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How about comparing Kim Jong-Un to the Goodyear blimp?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s decision, and the movie has opened this week.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the North\u2019s powerful National Defense Commission, the country\u2019s top governing body led by Kim, said that Obama was behind the release of \u201cThe Interview.\u201d It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t 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 \u201chideous\u201d lantern jaw and South Korean President Park Geun-hye a prostitute. In May, the North\u2019s news agency published a dispatch saying Obama has the \u201cshape of a monkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defense commission also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korea websites this week, which happened after the U.S. had promised to respond to the Sony hack. The U.S. government has declined to say if it was behind the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from the White House on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source AP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea compared President Barack Obama to a monkey, and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2124],"tags":[2125],"class_list":["post-18196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-interview"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-300x200.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-359x205.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-285x239.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-359x198.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"North Korea compared President Barack Obama to a monkey, and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Interviews"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":147,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web.jpg",359,239,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/korea web-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-2124\">Interviews<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}