Vitriolic insults hurled by North Korea's state-run media are so frequent that they're usually not news. But recent KCNA articles use such racially-charged rhetoric that they have drawn criticism from the White House's National Security Council, which called them "particularly ugly and disrespectful." North Korea's state media KCNA described President Barack Obama using racial epithets and likened him to a "wicked black monkey." The most offensive piece, published in Korean on May 2 under the title "Divine punishment to the world's one and only delinquent Obama," repeatedly refers to him as a monkey. "You can also tell this by his appearance and behavior, and while it may be because he is a crossbreed, one cannot help thinking the more one sees him that he has escaped from a monkey's body," it stated.
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KCNA describes Obama with racial slurs
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The piece repeatedly likens Obama to a monkey
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North Korea state media often ridicules state officials, including South Korean president
The racist rant on @placeholder was flagged by a blog, One Free Korea, which started the entry with, "Oh, yes they did" and highlighted excerpts from the epithet-laced official news service.