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North Korea's whole internet has been disrupted tonight... anyone else heard about this??
North Korea Loses Its Link to the Internet
By NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGERDEC. 22, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — A strange thing happened to North Korea’s already tenuous link to the Internet on Monday: It stopped.
While perhaps a coincidence, the failure of the country’s computer connections began only hours after President Obama declared Friday that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to what he termed an act of “cybervandalism” against Sony Pictures.
Over the weekend, as North Korean officials demanded a “joint investigation” into the Sony attacks and denied culpability — an assertion the United States rejected — Internet service began to get wobbly. By early Monday, the Internet went as dark as one of those satellite photographs showing the impoverished country by night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/attack-is-suspected-as-north-korean-internet-collapses.html?_r=0
By NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGERDEC. 22, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — A strange thing happened to North Korea’s already tenuous link to the Internet on Monday: It stopped.
While perhaps a coincidence, the failure of the country’s computer connections began only hours after President Obama declared Friday that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to what he termed an act of “cybervandalism” against Sony Pictures.
Over the weekend, as North Korean officials demanded a “joint investigation” into the Sony attacks and denied culpability — an assertion the United States rejected — Internet service began to get wobbly. By early Monday, the Internet went as dark as one of those satellite photographs showing the impoverished country by night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/attack-is-suspected-as-north-korean-internet-collapses.html?_r=0
I just heard about it from my dad, who said e heard it on the news. I had to look it up myself as I don't watch the news on TV.
Peace,
Ghost
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Well damn!!! 
North Korea has been suffering severe internet outages, with one analyst saying the country's access to the web was entirely cut.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30584093?OCID=fbasia
I have no idea what caused that to happen. Retaliation from the U.S or their Apple IIe servers just crashed?
