North Korea has branded the U.S. a 'toothless wolf'
whose 'strength is waning day by day' in the latest round of tough-talk
following on from the Sony hacking scandal.
A column in the country's national newspaper Rodong
Sinmun, which is run by the ruling Communist party, called America an 'empire of
devils' that is 'bound to grow old and go to ruin.'
Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea began rising
last month after Sony Pictures was hacked for producing The Interview, a film
which depicts the assassination of the country's 'supreme ruler', Kim Jong-Un.
While North Korea has denied being behind the hack, a
government official called it a 'righteous act' and threatened to attack
cinemas showing the film, leading to the launch being cancelled.
President Barack Obama publicly chastised Sony for
pulling the film, before promising a 'proportional response' to the hack,
before North Korea's internet was taken offline yesterday.
The U.S. has also refused to acknowledge it had
attacked North Korean cyberspace, but the outage prompted an angry response
today.
According to The Telegraph, the column reads: 'The
sound of gunfire has never stopped on this planet since the US made its
bloodstained appearance in the world.
