Kentik Links Foreign Traffic Floods to North Korea .kp Outage
Multiple waves of traffic this week knocked large parts of North Korea’s public internet offline, leaving more than 40 .kp websites intermittently unreachable for roughly 32 hours. The outages began in the early hours of October 20 (02:01 UTC) and affected core services including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korean Central News Agency. Internet measurement firm Kentik, through its internet analysis director Doug Madory, traced sudden traffic floods…