North Korea's Internet and Mobile Phone Network 'Paralyzed'
Source: Gizmodo
Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that North Korea's internet is down. Again. But this time the country's 3G mobile phone network has been taken down as well. The report was confirmed via landline from North Korea to China.
North Korea's internet has faced numerous outages in the past week, but this appears to be the first report of the country's mobile phone networks going down. While very few people in North Korea have access to internet, it's estimated that about 1.7 million have mobile phones. The country has 25 million people.
This latest report of North Korea's communications network woes comes on the heels of a statement from an unnamed official spokesperson who called President Obama a "monkey." North Korean officials believe that the United States is behind the recent outages. "Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," the spokesman said in a racist statement through North Korea's KCNA news agency on Saturday.
It's unclear who is behind the attack though North Korean officials publicly assert it's the United States that's mucking up their works. The FBI has pointed the finger at North Korea over the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, but some security experts are actually skeptical that it was them. The Obama administration said that they would retaliate in some form over the Sony hacks but won't acknowledge if these recent outages are the work of the U.S. government.
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)I like Obama's approach a lot better - he won't even comment on the outage.
It's a lot sneakier and a hell of a lot cheaper. Plus it's more effective.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)In the early days of the Bush administration I question if George ever heard of the internet(s).
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)won't be able to get internet service again today.
christx30
(6,241 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)job by a disgruntled employee. If that is so - who is hacking into NK now and should they be?
Not that I care about the NK leader but I do care about the people.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)As for the FBI, they couldn't pour piss out of the proverbial boot f the instructions were printed on the heel.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)The majority of the populace have never been informed that the Internet even exists, and it is illegal to talk about it with those not possessing the proper security clearance. Most of the country doesn't even have electricity or running water or food.
A cell phone outage really isn't much of a problem to the people of North Korea.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)to download or stream The Interview. NK probably shutdown its own network to prevent people from watching the movie.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Those poor thousands in North Korean work camps. They probably don't even know the iPhone 6 is out. They probably won't know for months. MONTHS.
project_bluebook
(411 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:19 PM - Edit history (1)
I would think it would be a little easier to do this in NK because of the way they filter the internet and networks. Just hit the filter logjam
Throd
(7,208 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)project_bluebook
(411 posts)You must be a right winger
Throd
(7,208 posts)I grew up with the spelling "Corea."
It's like the entire "Romania"/"Rumania" kerfuffle. Or the current insistence that the cognoscenti have the "true" pronunciation of "Pakistan," with the back [a], unlike us heathen who mispronounce it with a front [ae] and we must all assimilate long-standing American English phonology to Urdu. At once, lest offense be taken.
I also expect them to properly use phonemic length when citing names in Urdu, reduce Russian vowels appropriately and absolutely use the sharp/plain consonant distinction correctly, get the tense/lax/aspirated distinction right in Korean, and distinguish not only Mandarin tones but, when citing Chinese names from non-Mandarin areas use the proper tonal system for those areas. At a minimum. Otherwise I view them not as cognoscenti but snobbish fools ... or foolish snobs.
They don't affect understanding, so they're matters of scant interest.
d_r
(6,907 posts)doc03
(35,338 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,451 posts)call Miss Utility.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,451 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)I have the impression North Korea's telecom system goes down frequently, but we're learning about it now because they feel they can use these outages for propaganda purposes.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)In fact, I'm surprised there aren't slowdowns in other places besides NK.
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)Any chance of you printing the link? It looks like an extremely interesting and informative site.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)snot
(10,529 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)I did a google search and found some interesting things but will leave it to others to sort out fact vs fiction. Watching the various ports being used is also interesting as well as some of the countries makes me wonder what's harmless activitiity and what's not, etc. Last night MIL/gov was very, very active and I wondered what all that was about, perhaps nothing then again.....
I just find the activity to be very interesting especially when there's some well publicized shenanigans occurring.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Used to be McDonald Douglas.