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. 

There has yet to be any official comment from Washington or Pyongyang on the blackout. 

North Korea’s internet has totally blacked out, after experiencing steadily worsening connectivity outages from Monday.

While North Korea’s internet connection does occasionally suffer from similar problems, the blackout comes just days after President