North Korean Hackers Stole U.S.-South Korean Military Plans, Lawmaker Says (nytimes.com)

North Korean hackers stole a vast cache of data, including classified wartime contingency plans jointly drawn by the United States and South Korea, when they breached the computer network of the South Korean military last year, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday (alternative source). From a report: One of the plans included the South Korean military's plan to remove the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, referred to as a "decapitation" plan, should war break out on the Korean Peninsula, the lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee, told reporters. Mr. Rhee, a member of the governing Democratic Party who serves on the defense committee of the National Assembly, said he only recently learned of the scale of the North Korean hacking attack, which was first discovered in September last year. It was not known whether any of the military's top secrets were leaked, although Mr. Rhee said that nearly 300 lower-classification confidential documents were stolen. The military has not yet identified nearly 80 percent of the 235 gigabytes of leaked data, he said.

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Re:Can you be more specific?

[PopeRatzo]

I'm probably being dense here

Probably.

Right before the election, Hillary was the overwhelming favourite to win.

The Russians had something else in mind. Maybe NK got wind that the fix was in.

What does this suggest? Can you be more specific?

It suggests that whatever NK learned from the hack, they began to really ramp up the wardance once Trump was sworn in, knowing that he lacked both public support for war and was too easily distracted to make anything like a coherent plan to stop them.

Is that specific enough?