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I'm a little confused by the news stories about this. Did he take down their country-wide network, or just the few lines in and out of the country? It seems like he just hit a few NK websites and they everything stopped responding to him. Its like cutting the uk-europe power links and saying you took down all of the UK's power infrastructure


Only the lines in/out. NK has their own intranet which is completely separate from the global internet, which was presumably entirely unaffected by this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)


So not really much effect on the system then, overall


> North Koreans often find it more convenient to access sites by their IP address rather than by domain name using Latin characters

Don't blame them. Enom fee's are extortionate. And when DNS breaks it still works.




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