North Korea Internet Outages

December 23, 2014 5:14 PM

As of this writing, North Korea has had two Internet outages in 48 hours. A lot of people seem to watch when Internet service goes down for countries and companies. But I don't recall anyone saying North Korea's Internet had gone down until within the last couple of days. Has anyone reported North Korea's Internet going down in the past?
posted by CollectiveMind to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Here is a Google search for North Korean internet outages between Jan. 1, 2000 and Dec. 1 2014.

So, yes. North Korea's internet has had outages before. You've probably just never had much of a reason to pay attention to news about North Korea's internet status before.
posted by erst at 5:27 PM on December 23, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yes, this has happened numerous times, as erst's Google search demonstrates.

northkoreatech.org is a whole site that monitors this kind of thing.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 5:37 PM on December 23, 2014 [2 favorites]

Here's another person who portscans North Korea on a regular basis since Kim Jong Un took power. It doesn't (that I can see) have specific info about downtime frequency directly related to the question, but I'm guessing it'll be a useful link for someone else in the future, finding this question in search.
posted by Sunburnt at 11:35 PM on December 23, 2014 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you all. Merry Christmas (if Christmas is your thing), and Happy New Year.
posted by CollectiveMind at 11:00 AM on December 24, 2014