Internet goes down again in North Korea

North Korea’s Internet was “paralyzed” Saturday, according to reports, the second outage to hit the country in the last week.

China’s Xinhua news agency said that the country had lost connectivity, with both Internet and 3G mobile networks being affected, according to Reuters.

{mosads}The report of a new disruption comes after North Korea earlier Saturday hurled a racial insult at President Obama and accused the U.S. of being a massive Internet outage over the past week.

A North Korean official compared Obama to a “monkey” and mocked what it claimed were U.S. efforts to disrupt its networks. “[T]he U.S., a big country, started disturbing the Internet operation of major media of the DPRK [North Korea], not knowing shame like children playing a tag,” the spokesman said, according to a report from the AP.

The U.S. has not said whether it had any role in North Korea’s Internet disruptions.

The Obama administration last week blamed North Korea for a massive hack of Sony believed to be in response to the studio’s new comedy “The Interview.” North Korea has blasted the film, which involves a fictional plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un, as an act of war.

Pyongyang has denied responsibility for the Sony hack, but the White House vowed to respond in a proper manner.