North Korea’s links to the internet, already minimal compared to other countries of its size, were cut completely on Monday in the aftermath of claims by the US that the country had been behind an embarrassing cyber attack against Sony.
The severing of connections was widely seen as retaliation for the Sony hack, in which employee and company details were dumped online before the hackers threatened terrorist attacks against cinemas that screened The Interview , a satirical film depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, forcing Sony to withdraw the film.
Connection was re-established on Tuesday morning after nine and a half hours of outage, according to Dyn Research.