North Korea's internet was hit by the largest outages in months on Thursday, a cybersecurity researcher told Reuters, after similar service interruptions in January were blamed on suspected cyber attacks.
Internet access is strictly limited in North Korea. It is not known how many people there have direct access to the global internet, but estimates generally place the figure at a small fraction - well below 1% - of the population of about 25 million. Many more have access to internal networks that don't connect to the outside world.
At least two waves of outages struck the isolated country's internet over a period of roughly 2.5 hours, peaking with surges in network stress that made North Korea's entire internet unreachable, said Junade Ali, a British cybersecurity researcher who monitors a range of different North Korean web and email servers.
