State Department sidesteps questions on North Korean internet
- 9 years ago
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STORY: State Department spokesperson Marie Harf side stepped questions from the media about what role the U.S. may have played in the apparent internet outage in North Korea.
When asked whether the U.S. was involved in anything related to the internet shutting down in North Korea, Harf said, "This isn't our internet...I would go ask the North Koreans."
"We are just not going to entertain questions one way or another about, you know, any of these questions about, you know, possible U.S. responses of any kind. And I would caution you from assuming that because I am not going to comment on them-- that the answer means one thing or the other."
North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said.
STORY: State Department spokesperson Marie Harf side stepped questions from the media about what role the U.S. may have played in the apparent internet outage in North Korea.
When asked whether the U.S. was involved in anything related to the internet shutting down in North Korea, Harf said, "This isn't our internet...I would go ask the North Koreans."
"We are just not going to entertain questions one way or another about, you know, any of these questions about, you know, possible U.S. responses of any kind. And I would caution you from assuming that because I am not going to comment on them-- that the answer means one thing or the other."
North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said.