A U.S. hacking group’s attempt to attack North Korean web assets in the wake of a recent satellite launch also took independent North Korea sites, blogs and even South Korean government sites offline, NK Pros has learned.

New World Hackers, which describes itself as being “engaged in a cyber war with…anybody that violates human rights,” told NK Pro on Wednesday it was responsible for recent website outages of official North Korean media including the Rodong Sinmun, Voice of Korea and Korea Central News Agency (KCNA).

But despite previously describing multi-week efforts to