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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: North Korea’s Internet Outage Is Mostly Over [Watch (HLS stream): North Korea’s Internet Outage Is Mostly Over](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FzEBPDHt.m3u8) (2:05)  _Published 2014-12-23. After a nine and a half hour-long outage, North Korea’s internet appears to be back up and running, though there still looks to be some hiccups. 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While there's no official word from the white house on whether or not it was involved in the attack in response for the Sony hack. A spokesperson from the US State Department danced around confirming or denying any involvement. We aren't going to discuss, you know, publicly operational details about the possible response options. Or comment on those kinds of reports in any way. Except to say that as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen. But not everyone thinks it was the U. S. Matthew Prince of CloudFlare, an internet performance and security company told CNN, if it's an attack, it's highly unlikely it's the United States. More likely it's a 15 year old in a Guy Fawkes mask. North Korea's Internet outage coincided with a push from hacker collective anonymous. Code named operationRIP North Korea. A Twitter account affiliated with a group of peers who have claimed responsibility for the outage. As a Tech writer for the Washington Post points out, as soon as the anonymous operation was said to be underway Thursday. A security research firm found an uptick in denial of service attacks against North Korea but the outage and its continued disruption won't affect too many inside the hermit kingdom according to NBC News, the majority of the nations 24 million residents had zero access to the internet and those do have access are generally government or military officials. They only have four official networks. connecting the country to the Internet. It's very likely that the United States, or maybe some patriotic hackers, took a look at those, at those networks and said, there are only four of them. We might like to take those out. Over the weekend, a US official told the New York Times that the US was looking to China to help in blocking North Korea's Internet. 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