North Korea has gone completely offline

North Korea has gone completely offline
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North Korea is mysteriously offline today, Bloomberg reports. The hermit kingdom, which was formally accused of leading the Sony hacking scandal last Friday, had been "experiencing intermittent problems" yesterday before going completely dark today.

On Friday, President Obama promised that the U.S. government would issue a "proportional" response to North Korea's alleged hacking. There has been no word yet if the U.S. is behind the outage.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.