The News Lens
Date: 2016/06/16
By: J. Michael Cole

Despite the security breach, military officials maintain that national security was never

Photo: J. Michael Cole / TNLI

compromised.

Never mind Chinese spies or saboteurs. All it took was a monkey with enough audacity to climb over several wire fences around Chiashan Air Force Base on the eastern coast of Hualien County on June 14. The adventure cost the agile simian his life — he got zapped after deciding that toying with a transformer box was a good idea. And then the power at the airbase went out for a full seven minutes. The lights also flickered at more than 9,600 households in the area.

Soon after discovering the charred remains of the intruder, officials restored power by switching on a secondary transformer at the northern end of the base. Huang Yu-chi (黃裕智), director of the Political Warfare Office at the base, said that equipment and national security were unaffected, and that all operations were normal.     [FULL  STORY]