By Eric Tucker - Associated Press
WASHINGTON North Korea is experiencing widespread Internet outages. One expert says the countrys online access is totally down.
Its not immediately clear if the Internet connectivity problems were an act of retribution for a major intrusion at Sony Pictures Entertainment that the FBI last week linked to North Korea.
A spokeswoman for the National Security Council at the White House wouldnt say whether the U.S. was responsible.
We have no new information to share regarding North Korea today said National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan. If in fact North Koreas Internet has gone down wed refer you to that government for comment.
President Obama on Friday said the U.S. government would respond but didnt say how.
The White House declined to comment Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that of the federal government responses some will be seen some may not be seen.
Doug Madory director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research said the Internet connectivity problems were discovered in the last 24 hours and have gotten progressively worse to the point that North Koreas totally down.
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Washington Times White House correspondent Dave Boyer contributed to this report.
