North Korea Loses Its Link to the Internet - NYTimes.com

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"Experts who monitor the health of the global Internet called it one of the worst North Korean network failures in years. But American officials who had described over the weekend how they were intensely focused on the country’s telecommunications connections through China — and how they had asked the Chinese government for help in cutting off the North’s ability to send malicious code around the world — declined to discuss what befell those connections.
“I guess accidents can happen,” one said in a very brief telephone conversation."

North Korea Loses Its Link to the Internet - NYTimes.com