The suspected cyberattack comes just days after President Obama promised a “proportional response” to North Korea’s hack of Sony Pictures.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill on Dec. 20.
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The internet connectivity between North Korea and the rest of the world was restored Monday after collapsing for more than nine hours in what was widely believed to be a massive cyberattack.
The country's internet had been spotty for the 24 hours leading up to the outage, the blog North Korea Tech reported. But then on Monday afternoon, the country's internet, which is already very limited with only 5,500 websites, went out completely.
The internet connection in North Korea does suffer from occasional failures, but the consistency of this outage led the director of internet analysis at the cybersecurity firm Dyn Research, Doug Madory, to believe it is "some sort of attack."
The outage lasted nine hours, 31 minutes, according to the firm.
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