The internet in North Korea is severely down, according to an analyst

A UK-based researcher said that North Korea’s internet was going through a significant outage on Saturday, raising the possibility that internal issues rather than a cyberattack were to blame.

On Saturday morning, Reuters checked and found that North Korea’s Foreign Ministry website and its major news websites were unavailable.

U.K.-based researcher Junade Ali, who keeps an eye on the North Korean internet, stated, “A major outage is currently occurring on North Korea’s internet – affecting all routes whether they come in via China or Russia.”

Systems that can track online activity do not display North Korea’s whole internet infrastructure, he said.

“Hard to say if this is intentional or accidental – but seems like this is internal rather than an attack,” he commented.

Representatives from the Police Cyber-Terror Response Center in South Korea, which keeps an eye on North Korea’s online activity, were unavailable for comment.