口水戰:朝鮮指責美國黑自己

North Korea is accusing the United States of launching cyber attacks against it, after several of Pyongyang's state-controlled websites suffered apparent outages this week.

朝鮮指責美國對其發動網絡攻擊，此前平壤政府控制的幾個網站本星期看來出現停運現象。

The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday blamed the U.S. and its allies for what it called "concentrated and persistent virus attacks" over the past several days.

朝鮮官方的朝中社星期五指責美國及其盟友近日來進行“密集而持續”的網絡攻擊。

Internet users say several state-controlled websites, including KCNA, have been inaccessible for unusually prolonged periods this week. The U.S. has not responded to the accusation.

互聯網用戶說，包括朝中社在內的幾個政府控制的網站本星期不同尋常地長時間不能登陸。美國沒有對朝鮮方面的指責做出迴應。

The North Korean article offered few details, but attempted to link the alleged cyber attack to a computer-based joint U.S.-South Korean war simulation that began earlier this week.

朝鮮的有關文章幾乎沒有提供任何細節，但試圖將據稱的網絡攻擊同美韓兩國本星期早些時候開始的聯合模擬戰演習聯繫起來。這一演習是依靠電腦進行的。

Last week, North Korea threatened to wage a "preemptive nuclear attack" on the U.S. if it went ahead with the annual exercise, which proceeded as normal on Monday.

朝鮮上星期威脅說，如果美國與韓國進行年度軍事演習，朝鮮就將對美國發動先發制人的核打擊。美韓聯合軍演於星期一正常啓動。