North Korean Internet Outage Sparks Speculation on Internal Causes

North Korea faced a significant internet outage on Saturday, leading to the inaccessibility of its major news and Foreign Ministry websites. Checks by Reuters confirmed the disruption, affecting all internet routes coming through China and Russia.

According to Junade Ali, a U.K.-based researcher monitoring the situation, North Korea's entire internet infrastructure vanished from systems that track internet activities. Ali suggests the outage might be due to internal issues rather than an external cyberattack.

Efforts to reach officials at South Korea's Police cyber terror response center for comments were unsuccessful, leaving questions about the exact cause of the disruption.

(With inputs from agencies.)