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onefluover
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Posted: December 22 2014 at 1:09pm |
North Korea goes completely offline: Report
25 Mins Ago CNBC.com North Korea is having major Internet problems, just days after President Barack Obama promised a proportional response to the devastating hacks against Sony. The country, which the FBI accused last week of the cyberattack, is suffering a total Internet outage that experts at DYN Research said is out of the ordinary, as first reported by North Korea Tech. According to the research firm, North Korea's Internet grew steadily worse beginning Sunday night, and then went completely offline Monday morning. "I haven't seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before," Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at DYN Research, told North Korea Tech. "Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently." In an interview with Re/code, Madory said that even typically strong connections are experiencing disruptions. (CNBC's parent NBC Universal is an investor in Re/code's parent Revere Digital.) "They're pretty stable networks normally," he told Re/code. "In the last 24 hours or so, the networks in North Korea are under some kind of duress, but I can't tell you exactly what's causing it." He added that there is no way to know if the outages are the result of an attack, or are just from maintenance or a power outage. Still, "given the timing," a cyberattack is worth considering, he told Re/code. In a Friday media conference, Obama promised a response "at a place and time and manner that we choose," and he declined to rule out military force or economic penalties. When asked for comment, a White House National Security Council representative told CNBC, "We don't have any new announcements on North Korea today." "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," Marie Harf, a deputy spokeswoman at the State Department, said during a media briefing. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince suggested that North Korea's loss of Internet may not necessarily be the result of U.S. action. In fact, he told the Journal, the country could have shut off its own Internet to assert control over its population or guard against cyberattacks. China—which provides Internet to the embattled nation—also could have taken North Korea offline in response to American pressure, he said. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102289459 |
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onefluover
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Reported earlier today....again:
Dec 21, 11:25 PM EST N. KOREA THREATENS STRIKES ON US AMID HACKING CLAIMS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama is "recklessly" spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures, North Korea says, as it warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and "the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism." Such rhetoric is routine from North Korea's massive propaganda machine during times of high tension with Washington. But a long statement from the powerful National Defense Commission late Sunday also underscores Pyongyang's sensitivity at a movie whose plot focuses on the assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un, who is the beneficiary of a decades-long cult of personality built around his family dynasty. The U.S. blames North Korea for the cyberattack that escalated to threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters and caused Sony to cancel "The Interview's" release. Obama, who promised to respond "proportionately" to the attack, told CNN's "State of the Union" in an interview broadcast Sunday that Washington is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism The National Defense Commission, led by Kim, warned that its 1.2 million-member army is ready to use all types of warfare against the U.S. "Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole U.S. mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the `symmetric counteraction' declared by Obama," said the commission's Policy Department in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. North Korea has said it knows how to prove it had nothing to do with the hacking and proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. North Korea and the U.S., which fought each other in the 1950-53 Korean War, remain technically in a state of war because the conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The U.S. stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea. The rivals are locked in an international standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programs and its alleged human rights abuses. In the spring of last year, tension dramatically rose after North Korea issued a string of fiery threats to launch nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NKOREA_SONY_HACKING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-12-21-21-44-06 |
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onefluover
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Didn't know they even had Internet there.
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Johnray1
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onefluover,I really hope that we are causing the problems in North Korea.Johnray1
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Satori
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North Korea at night they don't have much electricity either ! so far there is no definite proof that NK did the hack only the accusation by the US government which we all know has a long long history of lying about a lot of things the hacker group ANONYMOUS claims the NK was not behind the attack |
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Emails Reveal US State Department Influenced Sony’s “The Interview” so as to Encourage Assassination and Regime Change in North Korea http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/12/18/state-dept-the-interview/ could the US government actually be behind the hack ? not entirely out of the question |
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Can't argue with any of that. But they should be smacked down just for GP's anyways.
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Maybe they should unplug it and try turning it on again...
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Al gore did for them. And it worked!
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Satori
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I'm not real worried about NK taking out our grid and I think this article is a bit of hyperbole but it does give an interesting account of how VERY dependent we have made ourselves on electricity how long could you survive if the lights went out starting NOW...... Multiple Sources Indicate North Korea Will Attack the American Power Grid http://beforeitsnews.com/war-and-conflict/2014/12/multiple-sources-indicate-north-korea-will-attack-the-american-power-grid-2455080.html?currentSplittedPage=1 |
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I spent a year in Korea while in the military. I am convinced that the US is in Korea to keep South Korea from moving on the North as much as being there to protect the South. Some real hard emotions over there. Plans are written based on hostilities lasting a few days - - 85 percent on North Korea's forces are already forward deployed along the DMZ but there is not much behind them. One surge and that's it. The only question is would their big weapon work?
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SeaWolfe,I think that you are 100% correct.Johnray1
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Sony is being blackmailed by criminals (and not North Korea) . http://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-longstanding-us-punching-bag/5421321. The story is going on for longer then only "the interview".
Half of the population of South Korea, 22+milionlive in the Seoul-region. A dam in the Han-river could do a lot of damage if war would break out and that dam broke. What the world needs now is not more war and hate. Collective suïcide is not a sign of civilization.
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Dutch Josh,I agree. But it seems that the world has always chosen war.Johnray1
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North Korea launching a cyber attack on Sony..... What a freaking joke. Why? what do they have to gain? squat!!
My take on this is its most likely a false flag generated by the NSA, but i cant work out why... Why would the USA drop a propaganda bomb against North Korea?? I can only think of two reasons Maybe they are whistling one across Russia's bow. It maybe like testing a nuke to show your opposition you have the capability. Hi Russia don't mess with us as we can implicate you in a cyber war. Or the NSA / CIA are softening the public with propaganda for something bigger. Full on cyber warfare shutting down the net. I'm a bit baffled with this one hey it could actually be Kim Jon cutting sick at Sony???
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - North Korea's Internet and 3G mobile networks were paralyzed again on Saturday evening, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, with the North Korean government blaming the United States for systemic instability in the country's networks.
Internet connectivity had not returned to normal as of 21:30 local time, Xinhua reported, citing reporters in the country that had confirmed the situation over fixed telephone systems. The report comes after the North Korean government called Obama a "monkey" and blamed the United States for enduring instability in the country's internet infrastructure, after the U.S. blamed North Korea for hacking attack on Sony Studios. The attack was allegedly conducted to deter Sony from showing a comedy film called "The Interview," the plot of which featured a scheme to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and it resulted in major expense and embarrassment for Sony. |
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