It has being claimed by The Hacking group Anonymous_Korea that they have taken down five of North Korea’s websites , which also includes the country’s official web portal and the Foreign relations committee’s site.
The List of that Five websites which is under control of Anonymous_Korea has been published by Anonymous_Korea under the #Tangodown
The sites included the Korean and English language versions of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the North Korean Committee for Cultural Relations and the state-owned airline Air Koryo.
#OpNorthKorea– It is still attacking, however korea-dpr.com is still up. All others are #TangoDown“
— Anonymous_Korea (@Anonsj) March 30, 2013
Later a tweet came and they said that ‘The Attack was still under way, but they had had not managed to bring down The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s site.’
We checked a website of The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) http://www.kcna.kp/ which was still down at the time when we were writing this News.
Both Seoul and Washington dismissed the threats as “bellicose rhetoric,” as Pyongyang has been saber-rattling against the US and South Korea since it was sanctioned by the UN following its third nuclear test in February.
We would also note that North Korea has a long history of bellicose rhetoric and threats and today’s announcement follows that familiar pattern,” US National Security spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said.