Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of one of the world's biggest Internet companies, and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, have arrived in North Korea, a country with notoriously restrictive online policies. Ref. USAToday
Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet:
The simplest explanation for North Korea's suddenly dropping off the Internet was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that overwhelmed the isolated nation's tenuous connection to the rest of the world, experts said Monday. Ref. Source 9
North Korean Internet, 3G mobile network 'paralyzed:' Xinhua:
North Korea's Internet and 3G mobile networks were paralyzed again on Saturday evening, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, with the North Korean government blaming the United States for systemic instability in the country's networks. Ref. Source 8