North Korea experienced a brief disruption to its external internet connectivity on Thursday, August 28, 2026. The event, which lasted less than an hour, primarily affected the network’s control plane visibility.
Technical Details
The disruption occurred between 16:15 and 17:00 UTC. The event registered a severity score of 409, with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal showing the primary impact. BGP is the mechanism that exchanges routing information between networks, defining their visibility on the global internet. During the event, the number of visible BGP routes from North Korea dropped by approximately 9% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability, showed minimal change during the same period.
Reported Cause
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
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