North Korea Is Offline

Whoops:

While perhaps a coincidence, the failure of the country’s computer connections began only hours after President Obama declared Friday that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to what he termed an act of “cybervandalism” against Sony Pictures.

Over the weekend, as North Korean officials demanded a “joint investigation” into the Sony attacks and denied culpability — an assertion the United States rejected — Internet service began to get wobbly. By early Monday, the Internet went as dark as one of those satellite photographs showing the impoverished country by night.

Experts who monitor the health of the global Internet called it one of the worst North Korean network failures in years.

We talked about this very thing taping the week’s Trifecta segments yesterday, and part of my answer was that if I were President, I’d very quietly give our hackers the Go order.

If President Obama has done just that, my hat is off to him.