North Korea blasts Obama over release of The Interview

North Korea blasts Obama over release of The Interview
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North Korea's National Defense Commission, which is led by Kim Jong Un, criticized Sony's release of The Interview in a statement on Saturday — and blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the move, The Associated Press reports.

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," a spokesman for the commission's Policy Department said in the statement, reported by North Korea's official news agency.

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Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.