Obama racially abused in hacking affair of North Korea – derStandard.at

Pyongyang / Washington – In the dispute over the North Korea-satire “The Interview” has threatened on Saturday racially abused and “fatal blows” Pyongyang US President Barack Obama. Obama had ruthlessly with his insistence on a show of the film in US cinemas “like a monkey in tropical forest ‘behavior, said Saturday the powerful National Defence Commission (NDC).

A spokesman for the Commission made loud also responsible to a report by the official news agency KCNA Washington for the massive internet disorders, many of which media websites of the authoritarian communist-ruled and internationally largely isolated North Korea were affected on Monday. This was a “childish prank.”

cyber attack

After a cyber attack and terrorist threats anonymous hackers Sony had planned for Christmas Day theatrical release of “The Interview” initially called off. Washington made Pyongyang responsible for the network attack. Not least to pressure Obama, the film was then on Thursday but in about 300 mostly smaller cinemas on.

On the Internet, the film was also more than 750,000 times downloaded illegally. Using the online services of Sony’s Playstation and Xbox from Microsoft, the film was offered – but broke this deals to a putative another hacker attack on Thursday temporarily together

“The Interview” In the US a. Symbol of the press and freedom of expression become. Pyongyang sees through the story – an abstruse conspiracy to murder leader Kim Jong-un – wounded in his dignity. The strip pins in to terrorism and had been “produced with the participation of senior figures in the US government,” said the spokesman of the NDC.

Pyongyang threatens

The spokesman accused the US also once again North Korea “without clear evidence” of the terrorist threats and hacker attack on Sony reproach. If Washington remained committed to his “arrogant and criminal” Course, Pyongyang would be “the failed policies with inescapable deadly blows meet,” he threatened.

The saber rattling in the Bulletin of the North Korean government is nothing new, only recently A few days threatened the communist state with the US “toughest counter-reactions”. The racist insult Obama is a kind of re-offending. In May, the statement organ KCNA already compared the US president once with a “monkey in a zoo African”. The White House had the time condemned as “ugly and despicable”. (APA / dpa, 27.1.2.2014)