'Wicked black monkey': White House furious over North Korea's racist Obama slur in inexplicable rant from rogue state's mouthpiece

Washington spokeswoman said insults were 'ugly and disrespectful'

They were made two days after Obama's state visit to South Korea

Pyongyang's mouthpiece Korea Central News Agency made attack

Aimed at Obama and South Korean president Park Geun-hye

Comments were only in Korean and were not translated into English

The U.S. has condemned North Korea's state media after it described President Barack Obama as a 'wicked black monkey'.

A spokeswoman in Washington DC said the racist rhetoric, made two days after the U.S leader paid a state visit to South Korea, was 'ugly and disrespectful'.

Korea Central News Agency, the mouthpiece of the government in Pyongyang, made the attack in one of two pieces aimed at Mr Obama and South Korean president Park Geun-hye.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) and U.S. President Barack Obama (right), speaking during a joint press conference with South Korean president Park Geun-Hye at the presidential Bule House in Seoul, South Korea

Angry response: President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at a Democratic National Committee reception in San Jose, California, yesterday

Both pieces were only in Korean and were not translated into English by the news agency.

Kang Hyuk, a worker at the Chollima Ironworks Factory, in a translation by the NK News website, said: 'How Obama looks makes me disgusted.

'As I watch him more closely, I realise that he looks like an African native monkey with a black face, gaunt grey eyes, cavate [sic] nostrils, plump mouth and hairy, rough ears.

'He acts like a monkey with a red bum, irrationally eating everything,' Mr Kang added. 'Africa's national zoo will be the perfect place for Obama to live, licking breadcrumbs thrown by visitors.'



One of articles was translated by Josh Stanton, who blogs regularly about the North's human rights violations.

He said, in comments about Mr Obama's visit to South Korea made on May 2, KCNA wrote: 'Park made waste water-like reckless remarks ... after inviting her American master reminiscent of a wicked black monkey to visit South Korea.'

Racist rhetoric: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre) waving to North Korean soldiers North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (right) inspecting the newly built workers' hostel of Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill in Pyongyang

Other attacks in the commentary, according to the Washington Post, described Mr Obama as being 'a crossbreed with unclear blood' and like someone who 'has the figure of a monkey while the human race has evolved through millions of years'.

It also called Mr Obama a 'clown,' a 'dirty fellow' and somebody who 'does not even have the basic appearances of a human being'.

In response, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said: 'While the North Korean Government-controlled media are distinguished by their histrionics, these comments are particularly ugly and disrespectful.'

The second article also featured attacks on the South Korean president, describing her as an 'old prostitute'.

It is not the first time North Korean media has used such language when talking about the South Korean leader.