The high-speed bandwidth from Vladivostok gives North Korea more Internet resources to counter U.S. cyber operations.
Railway link between North Korea and Russia: North Korean border post on the Friendship Bridge. The border post now also has an Internet connection connecting North Korea to the rest of the world.
With the United States reportedly launching denial-of-service attacks on North Korea’s Internet entrances, Kim Jong-un’s regime has secured another connection that helps a few people in North Korea stay connected to the outside world — thanks to Russian telecom providers. Despite United Nations sanctions and unilateral actions by the United States to punish companies doing business with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, But 38 North Martin Williams (Martyn Williams) (http://www.38north.org/2017/10/mwilliams100117/), Pyongyang Sunday afternoon 5: 30. The Russian telecommunications service provider TransTelekom (т ранс т еле к о́m) began routing Internet traffic in North Korea.
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The connection provides a second route for traffic from North Korea’s Byol (” Star “) Internet service provider, which also operates the country’s cellphone network, Williams reports. Byol offers foreigners in North Korea 1Mbps Internet access for 600 euros ($660) a month (with no data cap).
So far, all Byol traffic has been transmitted through a single link provided by China Unicom. But the new connection uses a telecommunications cable link across the Friendship Bridge railway bridge, the only connection between North Korea and Russia. The new connection now accounts for more than half of routing requests on north Korea’s network, according to Dyn Research. TransTelekom (sometimes spelled TransTeleComm) is owned by Russian Railways, the Russian rail operator.
Dyn Dyn’s chart shows new routing data from North Korean ISPs
According to the Washington post reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-signed-presidential-directive-ordering-actions-t O – pressure – north – Chesapeake 2017/09/30 / c6722a – e7 a620-11-97 b14f – f41773cd5a14_story. HTML? Utm_term =. 8 bc9fb940ce2), The PENTAGON cyber Command specifically targeted North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, the country’s main intelligence agency, with denial-of-service attacks on the organization’s cyber infrastructure. According to White House officials who spoke to the Washington Post, the attacks should be over by Saturday.
Although the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attack was specifically aimed at North Korea’s own hacking operations, north Korea has previously carried out those operations from outside its borders. So it is unclear whether the attack will have any impact on North Korea’s usual cyber-espionage operations.
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