The North Korean Government responded on Monday to U.S. condemnation of recent racist attacks directed toward President Obama, calling them “a proper reaction.”

The DPRK Foreign Ministry defended the pair of articles published by the Korean Central News Agency on May 2, which quoted numerous racist and inflammatory remarks supposedly made by North Korean citizens.

“The resentment expressed by individuals of the DPRK at Obama recently was a proper reaction to him who malignantly insulted and slandered the dignified DPRK during his junket to South Korea,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesman told KCNA.

The official added that Obama’s