North Korea slams U.S and calls Obama a "Monkey" over release of 'The Interview',

North Korea has blasted the United States Government and have called President Barack Obama "a monkey" for athorizing Sony to release the Movie"The Interview."

North Korea has blasted US President Barack Obama as a "monkey" encouraging cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, and threatened "inescapable deadly blows" over the movie and also the cause of their internet blackouts.

The isolated dictatorship's powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) also accused the US of "disturbing the internet operation" of North Korean media outlets.

The NDC accused Obama of taking the lead in encouraging theatres to screen The Interview on Christmas Day.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,"was a statement by the spokesman for the NDC's policy department published by the North's official KCNA news agency on Saturday.

"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,"

He accused Washington of linking the hacking of Sony to North Korea "without clear evidence" and repeated Pyongyang's condemnation of the film, describing it as "a movie for agitating terrorism produced with high-ranking politicians of the US administration involved".

The movie took in a million dollars in its limited-release opening day, showing in around 300, mostly small independent theatres. It was also released online for rental or purchase.

The film, which has been panned by critics, has become an unlikely symbol of free speech thanks to the hacker threats that nearly scuppered its release.

Culled from the Sydney Morning Herald