North Korea severs internet contact with the world?

Afternoon folks!

I don't know if anyone has noticed - or indeed if this has been discussed already - but every .kp website hosted from North Korea has been offline for at least nine hours as of 1230 GMT.

See for yourself, here's a list of .kp websites.

It could be that they are simply experiencing server problems, or have retracted their net to ward off a back door cyber attack - but I think you'll agree this is interesting timing.

Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?

Edit:

Here's 4 important .kp sites... none of which are working.

Air Koryo

Korea Central News Agency

Rodong Sinmun - official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Worker’s Party of Korea

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station

Now with an informative link courtesy of bhornbuckle75... With thanks!

reply to post by KingIcarus


Could be isolating themselves or it could be a cyber attack..

Seems to coincide with their threat of cutting contact with south Korea.

All of those websites seem to work.. I checked about 6.. They were all .com or .net though.. I can't seem to find the .kp ones. Also those websites (.kp) are almost all blocked from as far back as february 10th at least in South Korea..

reply to post by Dustytoad


It's certainly possible. It just seems odd that they've taken down cultural diplomacy sites like www.friend.com.kp.

Cyber attack I guess!

Edit:

Oh, sorry - click the thumbnail pic of the websites and it'll take you to another page with the direct .kp links. None of them seem to be working.

They're back up now.

reply to post by Clisen33


Nope - try these four.

Air Koryo

Korea Central News Agency

Rodong Sinmun is the - official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Worker’s Party of Korea

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station

These are all important North Korean sites for internal and external propaganda.

That is very interesting. This might be significant

Originally posted by KingIcarus
reply to post by Clisen33

 

Nope - try these four.

Air Koryo

Korea Central News Agency

Rodong Sinmun is the - official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Worker’s Party of Korea

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station

These are all important North Korean sites for internal and external propaganda.

They came back up not too long ago, now this is very interesting....

reply to post by KingIcarus


Here's a thing about it. www.northkoreatech.org...

Dennis Rodman has the clout now. He wanted the sites back up, they went up. Never underestimate the power of Dennis.

yes this has been discussed before
nothing came off it

Ha, i wouldnt touch those websites, even with your IP

I have been checking since 7.45h CET/MEZ and they haven't been online since, indeed a weird timing. Information blackout maybe, because of the start of their military drill?

ETA:

just on Twitter -> brute force hacking attack from foreign countries

I translated it into English via Google.

I am here in Tokyo and I can access www.kcna.kp... as well as www.gnu.rep.kp...

reply to post by KingIcarus


Good eye!

South Korea banks and media report computer network crash...

S&F for you...

Here is the reason this is even applicable...

The latest network paralysis took place just days after North Korea accused South Korea and the U.S. of staging a cyberattack that shut down its websites for two days last week. Loxley Pacific, the Thailand-based Internet service provider, confirmed the North Korean outage but did not say what caused it.