The nation’s National Defense Commission said the U.S. is “oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would.”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an undated photo released December 25.
Kcna / Reuters
North Korea on Friday blamed the U.S. for widespread internet outages that struck the isolated nation earlier this week, the National Defense Commission told Reuters.
The country's web access was down for nine hours on Dec. 22 – and was spotty for days before that – shortly after President Obama promised a "proportional response" after the federal government said North Korea was behind the hack of sensitive and embarrassing Sony documents.
No one has taken responsibility for knocking out North Korea's web services, and Washington D.C. has said it was not involved. North Korea has said it wasn't involved in the Sony hack.
As Reuters reported:
"The United States, with its large physical size and oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would, has begun disrupting the Internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic," the North's National Defense Commission said in a statement.
"It is truly laughable," a spokesman for the commission said in comments carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.
LINK: North Korea Back Online After Internet Collapsed For More Than 9 Hours
LINK: North Korean Government Responsible For Sony Hack, FBI Says
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