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Cyberwar on North Korea Could Be Illegal

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Someone knocked the Hermit Kingdom offline. If it was the United States, the operation will test the bounds of international law.

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North Korea’s limited connection to the Internet was temporarily severed Monday, just three days after President Barack Obama promised a “proportional” response for what he said was Pyongyang’s brazen hacking

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