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2017/10/02 16:15:02

The Internet in North Korea

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2017: Russia provided an Internet channel

At the beginning of October, 2017 it became known of the second source of connection of North Korea to the Internet. Russia became it.

According to Reuters with reference to these companies Dyn Research which specializes in monitoring of Internet connections at 6 a.m. Moscow time on October 1, 2017 Russian Transtelecom began to render services of routing of web traffic from the DPRK. The telecommunication company refrained from comments at the request of news agency.

Earlier for an exit in the World Wide Web this country used only infrastructure of the Chinese state telecom company China Unicom.

Russia provided to North Korea the channel for Internet connection

That Transtelecom connected North Korea to the Internet the first was reported by the website 38 North (under control of American-South Korean School of the highest international researches at Johns Hopkins University) specializing in the analysis of a situation in this country. The FireEye company also confirmed these data.

According to the technical director of FireEye Bryce Boland, the Internet in the DPRK is limited by several hundred connections, however they are important very much for coordination of cyber attacks from the country. The expert is sure that the Russian Internet channel will allow North Korea to organize new cyber attacks.

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It will improve fault tolerance of their network and will increase their capability to manage and control this activity — Boland reported.
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The DPRK was accused of the organization of the attacks to banks, Sony Pictures and epidemics of the WannaCry virus, the North Korean authorities resolutely rejected these charges.

Bryce Boland notes that many hacker attacks which are carried out by request of Pyongyang were performed because of borders of North Korea, using the computers infected in other countries.

At the beginning of September, 2017 the DPRK conducted the most powerful nuclear test in the history, having provoked the next regional crisis and having caused a condemnation wave around the world, including Moscow, Beijing and Washington.[1]

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