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N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey"

Posted by timothy on from the he-doesn't-have-a-monkey-dot-org-address dept.

Reuters reports that North Korea's government has publicly blamed the U.S. for the widespread internet outages that the country has recently experienced (including today), and taken the opportunity to lambaste President Obama, as well. From the article: 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 used before.

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  1. More moaning and groaning for nothing. by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like North Korea is the paper tiger. And Kim Jong Un needs a new speech-writer - the republican base claims prior art.

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    1. Re:More moaning and groaning for nothing. by fustakrakich · · Score: 3, Funny

      Meh, I blame LG for the whole affair.

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  2. So Ted Nugent is their propagandist? by jlowery · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are more facets to Mr. Poopypants than I imagined..

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  3. Re:Didn't they announce it? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cutting North Korea's Internet access is just a trial run, the real objective is to cut Internet access to everyone in the U.S.A.

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  4. I take offense by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I take offense at the comparison. I like monkeys.

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  5. Re:They have a good point by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

    They buy them on Tor with Bitcoins . . . just like everybody else.

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  6. A monkey? by jd2112 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Monkeys like to throw shit around but they are mere amateurs compared to politicians.

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  7. Re:Didn't they announce it? by tlambert · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't the US say they were going to try and get North Korea's internet access cut?

    It was suggested by "security researchers".

    Sadly, it took more candy than they had on hand to bribe the 12 year old in Des Moines, Iowa to stage the BGP attack against the 4 routers necessary to take North Korea of the Internet, so it was several days until the attack went forward.