North Korea blames U.S. for its nine-and-a-half-hour Internet outage earlier in the week. North Korea also called President Barack Obama a “monkey” as part of a racist, vitriolic statement. The statement was the country’s first official response to the severing of its Internet connection from the rest of the world on Monday. The isolated country again vanished from the Internet hours after the statement was published by the North’s state-run news agency. Security experts remain skeptical of the FBI’s claim that North Korea was responsible for the Sony intrusion.”]