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North Korea has upped the ante in its feud with the United States.

In the wake of The Interview being released in select theaters on Christmas Day, along with an Internet outage this week in North Korea, a spokesperson for that unstable nation has come out swinging against President Barack Obama.

Via a statement that blames America for North Korea’s latest World Wide Web disruptions, the totalitarian regime’s ruling body, the National Defence Commission, says of our Commander-in-Chief:

“Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.”

The FBI, of course, has confirmed that North Korea was behind endless hacks into the personal lives of Sony executives, a scandal that caused the company to initially cancel the release of The Interview.

In response to that decision, Obama mocked his country’s arch nemesis.

The North Korean spokesperson also charged the United States with falsely linking the Sony hacking to North Korea “without clear evidence,” accusing the Presidential administration of “disturbing the Internet operation” of North Korea in retaliation.

The Interview stars James Franco and Seth Rogen and centers on their characters’ attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un.

Sony chose to release the film in just a handful of theaters late this week, following Obama’s criticism of its decision to essentially erase it from existence in the wake of the hacking scandal.

Adds North Korea’s National Defence Commission in its statement:

“U.S. President Obama is the chief culprit who forced the Sony Pictures Entertainment to ‘indiscriminately distribute’ the movie and took the lead in appeasing and blackmailing cinema houses and theatres in the U.S. mainland to distribute the movie.”

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