North Korea blames U.S. for Internet blackouts, calls Obama ‘monkey’

North Korea on Saturday blamed the U.S. for its nine-and-a-half-hour Internet outage earlier in the week, and called President Barack Obama a “monkey” as part of a racist, vitriolic statement issued by the country’s highest government body, the National Defense Commission (NDC).

The statement by the NDC, which was carried by North Korea’s state-run news agency, was the country’s first official response to the severing of its Internet connection from the rest of the world on Monday.

“The U.S., a big country, started disturbing the Internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing a tag,” the NDC statement read, using the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea moniker for the nation.

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