North Korea Suffers Internet Prob – Expert

A United States company that monitors Internet infrastructure said that North Korea experienced Internet outages on Monday, for unknown reasons.

Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at New Hampshire-based Dyn Research said that for the past 24 hours, “North Korea’s connectivity to the outside world has been progressively getting degraded to the point now that they are totally offline,” said

Madory said there’s either a benign explanation, adding that North Korea’s routers are perhaps (possibly) having a software glitch. He added that it may also be possible that somebody can be directing some sort of an attack against them and they’re having trouble staying online.

Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to respond to a major cyber attack on Sony Pictures, which he blamed on North Korea.

Reports said several US officials close to investigations of the attack on Sony said the U.S. government has no knowledge what might have caused any outages in North Korea and is not involved in any cyber action against Pyongyang.

Marie Harf, State Department spokeswoman, said she could not confirm whether North Korea had lost access to the Internet due because of cyberattack.

“We aren’t going to discuss … publicly, operational details about the possible response options or comment on those kind of reports in anyway except to say that as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen,” Harf was quoted saying.

The instability is in North Korea’s main link, report said and this runs through the northern Chinese city of Shenyang.

Madory added that this applied to North Korea’s main Internet connection via Chinese company China Unicom, although it was possible the country had limited connection via satellite, report added.

Madory said that during the last 24 hours, North Korea’s communications have been degraded to a point where they are unable to communicate, adding that the communist country have disappeared from the global Internet presently.