‘North Korea allows connection through Russia after US DDOs’

North Korea has added an internet transit to its Chinese connection, a research firm reports. This would make the country more resistant to DDO attacks, among other things. The US carried out such attacks on North Korea last weekend, according to the Washington Post.

It is the first time that North Korea has routed its internet transit through Russia, message Dyn Research, which regularly reports on conditions that affect the performance of Internet connections on a national and international level. Until now, internet traffic to and from North Korea went through the connection of the North Korean provider Star JV with the Chinese China Unicom. That connection has been there since 2010, reports 38North.

Last weekend, the US Cyber ​​Command carried out DDO attacks targeting the Reconnaissance General Bureau, as North Korean military intelligence is called. Bureau 121 would be part of this government agency, which deals with internet attacks. The attack is said to have ended on Saturday, the Washington Post reported. It is not known what the impact of the attacks was.

On Sunday, North Korea is said to have added a connection via the Russian TransTeleCom. Dyn’s graph shows that the connection briefly faltered, but has since gone through both TransTeleCom and China Unicom. According to 38North, there is a fiber optic link from Vladivostok to the border with North Korea and the connection was probably made via a railway bridge at that border crossing. In the past, North Korea has also routed its uplink through Intelsat, a satellite internet provider.