The United States has responded to remarks targeted at President Barack

Obama published by North Korea’s Chosun Central News Agency [KCNA], condemning the comments as “ugly and disrespectful.”

“While the North Korean government-controlled media are

distinguished by their histrionics, these comments are particularly ugly and

disrespectful,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a

statement on the 8th.

The announcement came after the KCNA published an

English language piece on the 2nd criticizing South Korean President Park Geun Hye for “inviting

her American master reminiscent of a wicked black monkey” for a state visit last month.

Park was also criticized for engaging in “whorish and

disgusting political prostitution,” and for “deliberately causing” the sinking

of the Sewol ferry on April 16th.