Cutter wrote on Dec 28, 2014, 16:37:
Leave it to Ars to turn into a clickbait article. In the context NK said it they meant he was foolish, it wasn't racial. Besides, last time I checked Obama was half-white anyway.
I suppose it's possible it was meant as a racial slur, but unless there's evidence North Koreans use monkey as a racial slur for black people I think it's just a regular, less dramatic, insult. It's foolhardy to assume other cultures have the same racial slang as ours or are even necessarily aware of it.
Or to put it another way:
Ars always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest.