North Korea's internet links restored

North Korea experienced a complete internet outage for hours before links were restored today.

The outage comes as North Korea is involved in a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures.

A US company that monitors internet infrastructure said the reason for the outage was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack.

The US had earlier threatened a proportional response for the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, which had made a comedy about the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Several US officials close to the investigations of the attack on Sony Pictures said the US government was not involved in any cyber action against North Korea.

US President Barack Obama had vowed to respond to the major cyber attack, which he blamed on North Korea, "in a place and time and manner that we choose".

New Hampshire-based company Dyn said North Korea's internet links were unstable and the country later went completely offline.

"We're yet to see how stable the new connection is," said Jim Cowie, chief scientist for the company.

"The question for the next few hours is whether it will return to the unstable fluctuations we saw before the outage."

Meanwhile, South Korea, which remains technically at war with the North, said it could not rule out the involvement of its isolated neighbour in a cyber attack on its nuclear power plant operator.

It said only non-critical data was stolen and operations were not at risk, but had asked for US help in investigating.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said today the leak of data from the nuclear operator was a "grave situation" that was unacceptable as a matter of national security, but she did not mention any involvement of North Korea.

North Korea is one of the most isolated nations in the world and the effect of the internet outage there was not fully clear.

Very few of its 24 million people have access to the internet.

However, major websites, including those of the KCNA state news agency, the main Rodong Sinmun newspaper and the main external public relations company went down for hours.

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