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Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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South.
(Just in case anybody else isn't a clairvoyant either)
I'll be honest, I assumed it was the South because I would be honestly shocked if the North ever reported anything bad happening to itself.
The north doesn't need backups because errors do not happen there /s
There are no backup failures in Ba Sing Se
“Cloud storage” in the North is just a drawer full of usb sticks confiscated from people smuggling K-dramas in from the South.
The DPRK has their own intranet called kwangmyong, which needs its own storage and servers. Citizens use it regularly, access to the broader global internet however is more controlled and limited to specific jobs and positions as far as I know.
I figured it had to be south, as north would definitely have backups