This is certainly true. I should add I have much more solid data on the kcna.kp site than others, as I’ve been doing this with kcna.kp for over a year. The KCNA actually site appears “down” in my location more often than not, and I don’t even bother to access it unless its through proxy servers (they are also getting really good at banning me). In this context, the site response rate to an average user would have been bad anyway, and once the attacks started there would have been no point trying to get your news from kcna.kp.

I’m so used to accessing anything North Korean through proxies, I sometimes forget that the average user wouldn’t think/be able to do it!