US condemns N Korea’s ‘ugly’ salvo at Obama

The United States has condemned as "ugly and disrespectful" racist comments directed at Barack Obama by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, comparing the US president to a black "monkey" in a zoo.

North Korean propaganda is known for vitriolic personal attacks on foreign leaders, but the recently published KCNA dispatch — not long after Obama’s visit to South Korea — stood out for its use of highly inflammatory and abusive racist language.

“The way Obama looks disgusts me,” said one worker at an ironworks factory.