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Websites hosted in DPRK are experiencing outages currently (www.reuters.com)
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SEOUL, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Some North Korean websites appear to have ​been experiencing intermittent outages, analysts ‌said on Wednesday.

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More than 40 official sites ​using the country's .kp domain, ​including those of the foreign ⁠ministry and state news ​agency KCNA, were inaccessible or ​unstable on Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

Network monitoring service ​Telecom Observer said it ​detected nearly six hours of disruptions in North ‌Korea's ⁠Border Gateway Protocol routing infrastructure from 1810 to 2350 GMT on Tuesday.

Analysts also ​observed intermittent ​outages ⁠on Wednesday, though many websites, such as ​KCNA and newspaper Rodong ​Sinmun, ⁠were accessible by 0043 GMT.

The cause has not been ⁠publicly ​attributed, analysts said.

North ​Korea's internet has suffered disruptions before.

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[–] [S] 15 points 12 hours ago*

I check KCNA pretty much every day. I was able to access it around 10 hours ago. DPRK websites have been down for at least 6 hours now.

I tried to investigate the outage. The DNS looking isn't resolving. I try to do a DNS lookup for kcna.kp on multiple DNS servers and it returns like "name not found". I don't know what that means.

I posted a list of DPRK websites here. https://hexbear.net/post/9499707

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