Jezebel

North Korea's Internet outage is probably due to pranksters, not U.S. 'cyberwar'

After the FBI officially blamed North Korea for the Sony Pictures hack, President Obama made a pronouncement that sounded a lot like fighting words: “We will respond, we will respond proportionally, ...
KSL

North Korea hit by major internet outage, likely due to internal cause

SEOUL — North Korea's internet was hit by a major outage that lasted several hours on Saturday, knocking off connection to government web sites and official news services online and severing the ...
Computerworld

Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet

The simplest explanation for North Korea’s suddenly dropping off the Internet was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that overwhelmed the isolated nation’s tenuous connection to the rest of ...
Yahoo

Fact Check: Viral Video Allegedly Shows North Koreans Pretending to Use the Internet

In short, the video — from 2013 — is authentic, and its producers said the venue featured in the footage was "designed to convince us that [North Korea] had access to the internet just like the rest ...
Wall Street Journal

North Korea’s Internet Service Remains Erratic After Outage

North Korea’s internet access appeared to be restored Tuesday, nine hours after the country was hit by an outage. WSJ’s Ramy Inocencio speaks with Seoul reporter Jonathan Cheng. SEOUL—North Korea’s ...
Reuters

North Korea's Internet links restored amid U.S. hacking dispute

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were ...
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News From Outside Disappears In North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught ...