North Korea Internet Hit By 2 More Outages [View all]

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Source: USA TODAY

Doug Stanglin and Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY 1:17 p.m. EST December 23, 2014

North Korea's Internet service, which was out for almost 10 hours on Monday, went down two more times on Tuesday, including a 31-minute stretch, according to Dyn Research.

The Manchester, N.H., company that tracks internet traffic and performance said "connectivity problems continue."

The initial instability emerged Sunday followed by the full shutdown for nine and and a half hours on Monday. The two outages onTuesday included one that lasted from10:41 a.m. ET to 11:12 a.m.ET.

The disruption inside the hermit kingdom comes as tensions grow with the United States over North Korea's alleged computer hack attack on Sony Pictures, and the studio's unreleased movie, The Interview, about a fictional attempt to kill the leader of the Pyongyang regime, Kim Jong Un.

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