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North Korean internet suffers more outages

DPRK blames U.S. for December 22 internet blackout

North Korea’s internet suffered more outages on December 27 and 28, with in country reporters from Chinese media outlet Xinhua also claiming that 3G services had been affected.

The most recent internet blackout occurred yesterday at 1pm local time in Pyongyang, which followed a larger outage on Saturday 27.

“At Pyongyang time 7:30 p.m. Saturday, DPRK’s Internet and 3G mobile network came to a standstill, and had not returned to normal at press time as of 9:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Xinhua reporters and Chinese facilities based in the country,” Xinhua reported.

Though it is difficult to establish if the