North Korea hurled a racist term at US President Barack Obama again, calling him a "monkey" for the second time this year. North Korea also accused the US of shutting down the country's internet amid the Sony Pictures' hacking incident involving the release of the film "The Interview."

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," said a spokesman from North Korea's National Defense Commission in a statement on Saturday, as reported by the Associated Press.

Earlier this year, the country's state media described Obama as a "wicked black monkey," using the racist term for the US President, according to The Hill.

The White House slammed those comments as "ugly and disrespectful."

On Saturday, the North Korean official also said Obama was behind the release of "The Interview," which involves a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea deemed the release of the film similar to an act of war and is believed to be connected to the massive and embarrassing hacking incident at Sony.

North Korea denied the allegations but in return blamed the U.S. for internet outages that swept the country last week, right after the Obama administration vowed to respond to the hack.

As we previously reported and according to The Guardian, computer expert Doug Madory, who is the director of internet analysis at Dyn Research, said North Korea's online access was "totally down."

"They have left the global internet and they are gone until they come back," he said.

"This shows something getting progressively worse over time."

He added, "usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently."

"They're pretty stable networks normally," he told Re/code. "In the last 24 hours or so, the networks in North Korea are under some kind of duress, but I can't tell you exactly what's causing it."

"[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," said the spokesman.

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