Allies North Korean war plans hacked by Pyongyang: lawmaker says
A trove of classified military documents, including the joint South Korea-US wartime operational plans for a conflict with Pyongyang, are believed to have been hacked by North Korea, a lawmaker in Seoul said on Tuesday.
Lee Cheol-hee, a lawmaker with the ruling Democratic party, said hackers broke into a defence data centre in September last year to steal sensitive documents, including Operational Plans 5015 – the most recent allied plans to fight North Korea in all out war.
The plan also reportedly includes detailed procedures for a decapitation strike against the North Korean regime – a plan that has reportedly infuriated Kim Jong Un.
Citing the South Korean defence ministry, Mr Lee said that 235 gigabytes of data had been stolen, although 80 per cent of these documents had yet to be identified. Among the other files identified were contingency plans for Seoul’s special forces as well as information on key military facilities and power plants, the lawmaker said.
The development comes as US President Donald Trump appears to take an increasingly hard line on putting an end to North Korea’s rapidly developing ballistic and nuclear weapons programmes.
Source:-Â https://www.ft.com/content/e7bcf28c-9dd5-3963-861c-a5ca2d84ae8c
