North Korea: Obama is a 'loser'

North Korea is slamming President Obama as a "loser" for suggesting that the regime in Pyongyang will eventually collapse.

"The recent wild remarks made by Obama are nothing but a poor grumble of a loser driven into a tight corner in the all-out standoff with the (North)," a government spokesman told state news agency KCNA.

During an interview last week on YouTube, Obama said that international pressure and the reach of the Internet to average citizens in North Korea will eventually doom its isolated government.

"Over time you will see a regime like this collapse," Obama said.

The spokesman for the government of Kim Jong-Un said that "we cannot but be shocked to find that Obama ... is so preoccupied with the inveterate repugnancy and hostility toward a sovereign state."

From the AFP wire service:

"The North has often used bombastic and sometimes racist rhetoric to slam Obama and other US leaders.

"Last month its top military body chaired by Kim compared Obama to a 'monkey' over his support for the screening of a Hollywood comedy hated by Pyongyang.

"'The Interview' -- about a fictional plot to assassinate Kim -- was released online and in theaters last month, despite devastating cyberattacks on its producer Sony Pictures.

"Washington blames Pyongyang for the attacks, a charge the North has angrily denied."