Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire North Korean internet is down; let the games begin

Cerainly have more of them. Wonder if Pugs pulled the plug on them?

Maybe with a little help from the PA Air Guard.

If you really wanted to retaliate - you'd make is so everyone had internet access instead!

Such an insular country isn't going to be hurt by being more insular....

Good point - maybe the way is to make a cheap battery powered cd player with the Korean language version of the movie and covertly distribute it among the NK people.

Human Rights Foundation founder Thor Halvorssen says the group plans on buying copies of "The Interview" -- which depicts the assassination of North Korea's leader -- and including them in upcoming balloon drops over North Korea. The group is waiting to hear whether Sony will release the movie in an alternate format since it canceled plans to release the film in theaters. (On Wednesday, Sony said it had no further plans for release.)

For the last two years, the Human Rights Foundation has been working with groups in South Korea to drop balloons into the North that are filled with banned items.

Already being done...

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/18/technology/north-korea-interview-drop-sony/

Doug Madory, of internet analysis company Dyn Research, said North Korea�s networks were �under duress� and he had not seen such a serious issue before. He told the North Korea Tech blog: �I wouldn�t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.
"I haven�t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages before. Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems."
He added: "North Korea is totally down."
Matthew Prince, of US internet company CloudFlare, told the New York Times the internet in North Korea was "toast" and added: "The North Korean network has gone away."