US Cyber Command Takes on North Korean Missile Program

I read an interesting article in the New York Times earlier this month, about how the United States is using cyber-warfare tactics against North Korea to slow the development of an inter-continental ballistic missile that can reach the United States.  The effective range maps were startling.  (see below)

It seems that Trump has inherited a cyber war program from the Obama administration that was started 3 years ago and targeted the North Korean missile development program.  Since that time, there have been a stunning number of launch failures (88%), so it seems to be working.

You may want to click over to the NYT article if you are interested in the details.  I am interested in the way that cyber-war is being used by our own and other governments.  There is a part of me that appreciates that cyber-war seems to be less destructive from both a loss of human lives and a destruction of civil infrastructure.  But then there is a part of me that is thinking that we just may not have gotten there yet.

 

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