North Korea suffers another Internet outage, hurls racial slur at Pres. Obama

[froggyboy604]

With its latest response in the country's on-going flap with the US, Agence France-Presse reports North Korea called President Barack Obama a "monkey" today. The racial slur comes after a recent double blow to North Korea: the country suffered yet another Internet outage Saturday and Sony officially released The Interview, its fictional Kim Jong-Un assassination film, on Thursday. North Korea has fingered Washington for the outages and insists President Obama encouraged US theaters to re-embrace The Interview. 
 
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," a spokesman for North Korea's National Defence Commission said in a statement published by the country's official KCNA news agency. "If the US persists in American-style arrogant, high-handed, and gangster-like arbitrary practices despite repeated warnings, the US should bear in mind that its failed political affairs will face inescapable deadly blows."
 
An apparent DDoS attack knocked North Korea off the 'net earlier this week, and it experienced another mass outage Saturday evening. This one even affected North Korea's telecommunication networks, according to Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency (via AFP).
 
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Internet outages in North Korea are probably the worst for people who only can afford a computer, and don't own other fun stuff like TVs and Radios since I bet there are very few fun offline activities like video games, movies, and listening to music on a MP3 player if you are a regular citizen, villager, and poor in North Korea.
 
North Korea calling Obama a monkey is probably not a good idea since Obama has a lot of tech savvy supporters who may start a DDoS attacks against North Korea to support Obama by DDoSing North Korea.
 
Crazy, that a DDoS attack can make North Korea go offline, and become disconnected from the internet. I guest North Korea's ISP is not very good, or the DDoS attack was massive, and could take out an entire countries or multiple countries internet connection at once.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

They really should be yelling at China who are their only connection to the internet.

 

[froggyboy604]

They really should be yelling at China who are their only connection to the internet.

I agree, they should be mad at the Chinese ISP providing them such a bad connection.

But, being mad at your only connection to the internet, and the outside world outside of North Korea may not be a good idea.  Without China's friendship with North Korea, North Korea would not have an internet connection, and contact with the outsiders who live outside of North Korea since a lot of countries ignore North Korea, and won't buy their products like food, wood, metal, gas, etc because the US, South Korea, and other countries are still at war with North Korea. A lot of countries won't buy stuff from a country like North Korea which spend money on the Army and weapons like guns, missiles, and planes while North Korean citizens are very poor because of the government spending habits, and political system.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I actually must serious question how a whole nation's internet runs through another nation.

 

[froggyboy604]

Maybe North Korea just want to save money by running their whole internet through China, so they can use the money for other things like Rockets, guns, and Nuclear bombs to blow up to scare South Korea, and surrounding countries like Japan.

It is also possible China is giving North Korea free internet in exchange for their friendship, or to spy on North Korea.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Still don't make much sense to me, if war broke out their connection could easily be cut.

 

[froggyboy604]

North Korea may have secret wireless internet like Satellite, Cellular, Wi-Fi, and Cellular based internet which it is keeping a secret from other countries like the US, so the US does not send spys, the army, and air force to attack their wireless connections, and wireless internet equipment like satellites and antennas.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I have my doubts they have any of that since they can't fire a rocket into space and all their money and supplies are put towards war machines.

 

[froggyboy604]

I agree North Korea may not have any type of long range wireless internet like Satellite or cellular internet network. I read on a blog post a lot of North Korea's money is used for buying luxury items like expensive cars, houses, jewellery, and nice electronics like iPads for the Great Leader, and the socially elite like senators, Army generals, and the family of the leader, and generals.

North Korea’s Kim Spending Big on Cars, Cognac, Pianos

Thanks to Dennis Rodman, we know that Kim Jong Un likes fine liquor, especially cognac. We also know Kim and his colleagues built a ski resort and an equestrian center. The report says the ruling elite purchased flashy cars, three-dozen pianos, and high-end recording equipment. Citing an earlier estimate, they guess that the total state spending on luxury goods rose from an average of $300 million a year under Kim Jong Il, to $645.8 million in 2012.

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A lot of the war machines maybe fake, knock-off machines, and not fully functional to hide the leaders, his family, his Army generals big spending on expensive stuff like cars from the average North Korean who think the leader is spending their tax money, labor, and supplies like metal on War machines to protect them from the US, and other countries.