The North Korean internet has been badly disrupted by the activities of a lone American hacker who has paralysed government-run websites and choked off email traffic in revenge for an earlier cyberattack directed against him by the Communist state.
The independent hacker, identified only as P4x, has according to reports repeatedly launched what are called “distributed denial of service” attacks, which shut down internet activity with a flood of traffic which overwhelm a system’s capacity to process it.
The attacks over the past two weeks have affected most of North Korea’s few official websites, including the state airline Air Koryo and Naenara, which carries news and propaganda.
Some experts who monitor the North Korean internet had previously suspected that the attacks were by Western governments
