North Korea is continuing to experience internet outages. Now the country has come out blaming The United States of America for their cyber problems, after the FBI and President Barack Obama claimed that the country was responsible for the Sony Interview hack. Now North Korea has issued a possibly racist statement calling Obama a “monkey”.
An unnamed representative for North Korea's National Defense Commission released a comment to the Korean Central News Agency, blaming America for the internet outage:
“The United States, with its large physical size and oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would, has begun disrupting the Internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic.”
The statement goes on to refer to President Barack Obama as a monkey:
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest."
It is unclear if the comments is meant to be a racial slur, but it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to think that North Korea purposely used incendiary language.
The FBI and President Obama have both come out blaming North Korea the Sony attack. However, some cybersecurity experts are not sure. Kurt stammberger, the senior vice president of Norse, spoke to CBS recently about the hack:
"Sony was not just hacked, this is a company that was essentially nuked from the inside… We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the most devastating attacks in history."
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