At around 10 p.m. pacific time on Monday, North Korea accidentally opened access to its nameserver long enough for an American security engineer to take a look at all of the websites registered to the secretive government.
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The annihilation project is going to be initiated if North Korea shows any slight sign of a nuclear attack.
The misconfiguration of one of the North Korea’s nameservers allowed information about the country’s worldwide web presence to leak.
As it turns out, there are only 28 registered domains in North Korea.
The sites were quickly listed on Reddit and include the Korean Central News Agency, Korean Education Funds, an insurance company, a site containing recipes and a site where people can purchase airline tickets. “This data gives us a better picture of North Korea’s domains and top level DNS”.
He also expressed gratitude to U.S. President Barack Obama for committing extended deterrence and the nuclear umbrella for the protection of South Korea from the North Korean threats.
Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling Workers’ party, featured headlines including “Kim Jong-un sends birthday spreads to veteran scholars”, and “Narcotic-related crimes increase among South Korean youngsters”, The Guardian reported. To be able to access the zone files, you must have prior approval (just like domain registrars or country-level organizations usually do).
The United States sent two B-1B bombers to South Korea on September 13, four days after North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test explosion, its most powerful to date. “Their administrators were perhaps unprepared for the traffic coming their way after Doug Madory, a researcher at internet monitor Dyn, uploaded the details of the “.kp” domain name to GitHub, a website popular with programmers, on Tuesday.
Earlier this week President Obama had condemned North Korea’s fifth nuclear test and met with Premier Li to discuss shared concerns.
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Screen grabs of the list were quickly posted on other tech-oriented sites, including Gizmodo, Reddit and North Korea Watch.
