If you oppose the Kim regime, expanded internet access in NKorea would be a wise goal.
The internet is not some single entity. It’s a collaboration of all countries all over the world sharing their IP addresses with each other using open standard protocols so that everyone can talk to everyone. To get a single country cut off from the rest of the world would require active participation from every country around the world which is highly unlikely. At most you’d just have some or most countries participating in the ban.
What would happen to North Korea in that case? For the common people, nothing. They are already living with very limited and filtered access. For the government agencies that have full access, they would likely work a deal with a country to get the rest of the internet routed through them.
It’s probably easier than you think. I suspect interconnects are consolidated into a handful of buildings. Satellite might be more difficult but need a clear line of site to the sky, making them visible targets.
A few well placed explosions would cripple NK.
Isn’t it just a matter of cutting off a couple of undersea cables? Sure satellite will still be available, but disrupting those cables can take out most of the country’s connectivity.
Isn’t that already the case? Or are you talking in terms of the government access to the worldwide internet?
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