Update: North Korea’s internet suffers blackout

Internet problems come just days after Obama threatens "proportional response" to Sony hack
December 23rd, 2014
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Updated: December 23, 5:07 GMT - Websites hosted inside North Korea appear to be functioning intermittently, after being offline for approximately nine hours. North Korean websites hosted outside the DPRK were not affected by the outage, indicating that the blackout affected the North Korean internet, but not all of its web assets. 

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  • Bob Anders

    Well I guess that means all 4 North Koreans with Internet access won’t have any for a while.

    • Knalpot

      Don’t they still use the Abacus?

  • Deform_Lux

    Poor old DPRK Dog-meat lovers!
    They’ll have to go back to using the Telephone to book their takeaway orders.
    Woof Woof, Ow Ow Ow. Love that Doggie!

  • kyle morgan

    Did you people actually think you could intimidate our great country? lol

  • John

    Love this.