SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean computer hackers have stolen hundreds of classified military documents from South Korea including detailed wartime operational plans involving its US ally, a report says.
Rhee Cheol-Hee, a lawmaker for the ruling Democratic party, says the hackers broke into the South’s military network in September last year and gained access to 235 gigabytes of sensitive data, the Chosun Ilbo daily reports.
South Korean soldiers sit on the top of a military armored vehicle on the road in the border city of Paju on September 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Donga Ilbo/STR)
Among the leaked documents was Operational Plans 5015 for use in case of war with the North and including procedures for “decapitation” attacks on leader Kim Jong-Un, the paper quoted Rhee as saying.
Rhee, a member of parliament’s defence committee, could not be reached for comment, but his office said he had been quoted correctly.
The report comes amid heightened fears of conflict on the Korean peninsula, fueled by US President Donald Trump’s continued threats of military action against Pyongyang to tame its weapons ambitions.
–AFP
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