North Korea suffered another Internet outage on Saturday, less than a week after another interruption -- believed to have been caused by an external attack -- left the country without online access for more than nine-and-a-half hours.
Xinhua News Agency, a state-run media outlet in China, reported the outage, which impacted North Korea's Internet and 3G cell phone network.
Dyn Research confirmed Saturday's outage, which lasted more than five hours.
Off-again, on-again: North Korea returns after > 5 hour national outage. pic.twitter.com/aWw7ffMU92— Dyn Research (@DynResearch) December 27, 2014
After losing Internet access earlier this week, North Korea released a statement on Friday, blaming the U.S. and President Barack Obama in particular for the outages.
North Korea has been at the center of controversy for months after hackers linked to the country broke into the computer systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and released a series of files, including the emails of several studio executives. The FBI said North Korea was behind the hack, an allegation the country denied.