N Korea\\\'s Internet links restored amid US hacking dispute

North Korea, at the centre 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 US company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New Hampshire-based Dyn said the reason for the outage was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. Several US officials close to the investigations of the attack on Sony Pictures said the US government was not involved in any cyber action against Pyongyang. US President Barack Obama had vowed on Friday to respond to the major cyber attack, which he blamed on North Korea, ‘in a place and time and manner that we choose.’ Dyn said North Korea's Internet links were unstable on Monday and the country later went completely offline. ‘We’re yet to see how stable the new connection is,’ Jim Cowie, chief scientist for the company, said in a telephone call after the services were restored. ‘The question for the next few hours is whether it will return to the unstable fluctuations we saw before the outage,’ according to Reuters.