Probably to upgrade to 1200 baud.
For a minute there I amused myself by the thought that during the hacked outage, the only content NK’s would be able to see on the internet was a looped streaming of The Interview.
I really hope it was just some kind of technical problem. Someone on the news pointed out that the US starting a tit-for-tat cyberwar with North Korea is a really, really bad idea. They can do a lot more damage to us with cyber attacks, by many orders of magnitude, than we could ever hope to do to them.
We can mildly inconveniance the North Korean government. OTOH, the North Koreans could, for example, hack major corporations and wipe out all of their payroll data. Or maybe see what kind of grief they could cause with the (computer controlled) US electrical infrastucture.
Doesn’t NK basically swipe their tech from China? If it was anybody outside of NK, it was probably China…?
I thought Sony was being blamed for being careless with their security.
Must be a new guy on the cleaning crew, unplugged the router so he could run the floor buffer. Happens all the time.
China changed their wifi password.
He must be quite ronery.
Or someone forgot to feed the carrier pigeons. 
How can they cyberattack us if we keep their Internet turned off?
People seem to forget that the original internet was a DARPA (Dept. of Defense (nee War Dept.) research) project.
We may have let others play, but I have to suspect the US kept a skeleton key, just in case.