North Korea's Internet is totally offline. Kim Jung Un frantically looking for one of these. pic.twitter.com/AXi1heL4xC
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) December 22, 2014
We’ve all seen nighttime satellite photos of North Korea showing vast swaths of darkness across the countryside outside Pyongyang, but several news organizations are reporting that North Korea’s Internet on Monday has gone “completely dark” as well, with the United States denying having anything to do with the service interruption.
WASHINGTON (AP) – North Korea suffers massive Internet outages; US official declines to say if it is responsible.
— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) December 22, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) – North Korea suffers massive Internet outages; US official declines to say if it is responsible
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) December 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/DavidKenner/status/547103131914354688
Hmmm… North Korea's internet access is down across the entire country http://t.co/kc1V1zcRoY
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) December 22, 2014
Funny old thing that RT @politicalwire: Hmmm… North Korea's internet access is down across the entire country http://t.co/EcCHHhMhP2
— Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) December 22, 2014
dial up @tobyharnden: Funny old thing that RT @politicalwire: Hmmm… North Korea's internet access is down across the entire country
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) December 22, 2014
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The Internet is down across all of North Korea. Apparently they use Comcast. http://t.co/kc1V1zcRoY
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) December 22, 2014
"@DynResearch: After 24hrs of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for 2+ hours pic.twitter.com/mi2XIer9n2"
— Frances Townsend (@FranTownsend) December 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/ShreeyaSinha/status/547120626612199425
That’s right; the White House did mention something about a “proportional response” after the FBI determined that North Korea was the origin of the Sony hack. Perhaps this is one instance where jokes about a “strongly worded letter” were unfounded.
But as NYT notes, so few people in North Korea use the internet that its hardly proportional, so far: http://t.co/jPd9Z99sA0
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) December 22, 2014
State Department says of response to North Korea, “some will be seen, some may not be seen.”http://t.co/p7WKXE7PzD
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) December 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/547120160017235971
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Kim Jong-un calls up tech support, gets this guy: http://t.co/cxPzjTfuA9
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) December 22, 2014
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Kim Jung Un was told a repairman would be in North Korea between 9am and 5pm tomorrow to fix his Internet http://t.co/p7WKXE7PzD
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) December 22, 2014
Headline: North Korean Internet is Down!
Reality: They ran out of chalk.— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 22, 2014
On the DPRK Internet going down… couldn't happen to a nicer authoritarian hellhole.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 22, 2014
If US really wanted to mess with Kim Jong-un, we would find a way to OPEN UP the Internet, not shut it down.
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) December 22, 2014