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North Korea’s Internet Running Again After Going Down ‘Hard’ for Over Nine Hours

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GETTY 042814 HandsKeyboard?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1419281194904Medioimages/Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The tables may have turned on North Korea.

The reclusive country’s state-run Internet went down “hard” for about nine hours on Monday, according to Dyn Research, which monitors the state of the Internet around the globe.

“I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in [North Korea] before,” Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, told the website NorthKoreaTech.org. “Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.”

It’s not clear what’s causing the outage at this time.

Last week, a Twitter handle claiming to represent the hacking group Anonymous tweeted: Operation RIP North Korea, engaged. #OpRIPNK.

On Monday night, Dyn Research tweeted that North Korea’s internet appeared to be back up and running.

Earlier Monday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf responded to questions regarding reports of the internet outage by saying that the U.S. was “considering a range of options in response.”

“We aren’t going to discuss publicly operational details about the possible response options or comment on those kind of reports in any way except to say that as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen,” Harf added. “So I can’t confirm those reports, but in general, that’s what the President has spoken to.”


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