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by resolutebat 727 days ago
No, he knocked out the two routers serving the entire country. NK sites were inaccessible to the outside world, and outside sites were inaccessible to NK.
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But very very few North Koreans even have access to the internet. Regular people just have access to a local intranet with censored information.

That exercise that Russia did a few years ago to see if they could function cut off from the internet? For north Korea that's the regular self-imposed status quo. I don't think it will have had much impact on daily life there.

But it would have had a big impact on the lives of the elites in the country, which are the people you want to hurt to put pressure on the regime.