BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

North Korea

Operational since Oct 21, 2026 13:05 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in North Korea since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of North Korea RSS feed

Where our monitored hosts are Each dot is a place with monitored hosts; bigger dots have more. The country is shaded in its status now.
2incidents recorded
2 hourstotal disruption
2 hourslongest incident
25outages measured since 2022
0reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Oct 21, 2026 08:352 hours Degraded
Oct 20, 2026 05:2520 min Degraded

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at North Korea · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

25 incidents · 0 blackouts · 0 partial outages

Outages in North Korea detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Sep 22, 2026 12:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Sep 22, 2026 00:502 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 82% of normal
Aug 28, 2026 16:1545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Nov 6, 2025 04:407 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Aug 8, 2025 15:0520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Apr 21, 2025 02:305 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Mar 18, 2025 09:5516 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 82% of normal
Dec 15, 2024 14:5525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Dec 2, 2024 15:001 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Oct 20, 2024 00:0013 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Sep 29, 2024 03:007 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 82% of normal
Apr 20, 2024 11:3011 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Show all 25
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Nov 7, 2023 19:2012 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Aug 8, 2023 12:5014 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Jul 7, 2023 13:1545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Jun 24, 2023 00:4050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Mar 20, 2023 18:455 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Mar 19, 2023 16:053 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jan 27, 2023 07:406 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Nov 17, 2022 10:2025 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Nov 17, 2022 08:3055 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
May 6, 2022 05:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Apr 8, 2022 01:2525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Feb 18, 2022 17:455 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Jan 26, 2022 02:351 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in North Korea since 2019.

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for North Korea.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.