Trump Has No Comment On If US Launched Electronic Warfare Attack Against North Korean Missile Test

Did media really think President Trump would confirm or deny if the military launched an electronic warfare attack against North Korea?:

President Trump is refusing to say whether the U.S. sabotaged North Korea’s launch of ballistic missile that blew up shortly after liftoff Sunday morning.

“I don’t want to comment on it,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt at Monday’s White House Easter Egg Roll.

Last month, the New York Times reported that during President Barack Obama’s last three years in office, he quietly ordered a surge in strikes against the missile launches — including the use of “electronic warfare” techniques to combat them. It’s unclear whether such a counterattack was used to sabotage Sunday’s launch.

“The approach taken in targeting the North Korean missiles has distinct echoes of the American- and Israeli-led sabotage of Iran’s nuclear program, the most sophisticated known use of a cyberweapon meant to cripple a nuclear threat,” the Times’ David Sanger and William Broad wrote in early March.

During his “Fox & Friends” interview, Trump would also not comment on what the U.S. response would be if North Korea attempted to launch another missile.

“We’ll find out,” the president said.  [Yahoo News]

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liz
liz
6 years ago

“We’ll find out,”
Think that is the best response I’ve ever heard a president say on the subject.

Denny
Denny
6 years ago

Nothing will happen, despite media attention. It will be status quo as usual.

JoeC
JoeC
6 years ago

One of the considerations with deciding to use a Zero Day attack: an attack that exploits a vulnerability no one knew existed, is if the enemy discovers what happened they’ll find the vulnerability and patch it.

Do you want to waste your possible one shot with a valuable technique on a trivial, low-level test target?

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
6 years ago

I’m not saying it was sharks with freakin’ lasers on their heads, but I’m not saying it wasn’t. 😉

Not sure what OS the NorKs use for their missile programs, but Red Star is a port of Linux. Linux itself doesn’t have too many exploits, and it does have a large community that constantly looks for them to patch them. But the North Korean phone is using a modified Android OS. I’m quite sure that we have Zero Day exploits there. At least Edward Snowden thinks we have a stack of handy exploits…

The North seems to be willing to follow the Battlestar Galactica technique. Use deliberately primitive equipment so that the more advanced Cylons can’t “hack” them. I can’t say that it’s a bad technique.

Back in my day, we used iron sights…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
6 years ago

“Nothing will happen, despite media attention. It will be status quo as usual.”

…said the man who never read Trump’s books.

James W Bolt
James W Bolt
6 years ago

AMEN

James W Bolt
James W Bolt
6 years ago

NK has never abided to the rules set down in the cease fire it was sign 27 July 1953 .I enter Korea on morning of 6 July 1950 Left 20 August 1951

Smokes
6 years ago

RokDrop Exclusive! I was in the CYBERCOM Operations Center when it all went down and took photos so the world would know the truth!comment image

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
6 years ago

New Ringtone for anyone who needs it:
http://digg.com/video/pyongyang-morning-song

😉

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
Reply to  James W Bolt
6 years ago

Welcome back, James. Haven’t seen you comment here in a while. How have you been?

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