North Korea’s disdain for the US is getting less and less subtle, and the country’s defence commission has lashed out at some US politicians, and they’re not mincing their words.

Some of the harshest comments went towards US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was described as a wolf with a “hideous lantern jaw” and also “donning the mask of sheep.”

Wednesday’s slur against Kerry appeared only in a Korean-language dispatch, suggesting it was meant to rally anti-US sentiment and burnish the leadership’s image domestically at a time when Washington and Seoul are conducting annual military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal.

North Korea didn’t stop there, and went on to label US President Barack Obama a “monkey” who should “live in an African natural zoo licking the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators”.

They then moved onto South Korean President Park Geun-hye, calling her a “prostitute” and “no more than a mentally deranged [sic] who does not have normal thinking faculty and insight, and a confrontation maniac just like a rabid dog always keen on biting others.”

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