North Korea’s limited internet hit by major outage, says analyst

Students wearing Korean People's Army uniforms sit at computers as they attend a class at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School outside Pyongyang in North Korea in 2018 [File: Ed Jones/AFP]

Internet access in North Korea has experienced a major outage, according to a United Kingdom-based monitor, but the exact cause may be internal rather than the result of a cyberattack.

Junade Ali, a researcher who monitors the North Korean internet, said on Saturday that the secretive country’s entire internet infrastructure is not registering on systems that monitor global internet activity.