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With one wrong swipe, South Korea loses $5M worth of weapons

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NewsHubA P-3CK Orion plane, similar to the one involved in the mishap.
We spend our days poking at screens without thinking.
Our fingers push, press and swipe long before we consider why they’re doing what they’re doing. Sometimes, our fingers make mistakes. We, though, can generally erase and correct.
That option seems not to have been available to a member of the South Korean navy who managed to push the wrong button at the wrong time, with costly results.
As the Yonhap news agency reports , the navy was performing a routine mission over the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan) on Sunday when a substantial amount of its weaponry went south.

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