Posted on 03/10/2011 4:35:19 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea Still Jamming GPS Signals
North Korea has been jamming Global Positioning System signals in South Korea since last Friday, it emerged.
"The North kept jamming GPS devices as of Tuesday," a senior government official said Wednesday. "The attack isn't common knowledge because there's been no tangible damage, but it continues."
There was one report that the GPS equipment of civilian aircraft near Incheon International Airport was faulty last Sunday. The official added the government identified Kaesong and Mt. Kumgang as the sources of the jamming attack. Interfering signals are sent out constantly, "so we can't say exactly when and how many times it was carried out."
A senior Cheong Wa Dae official said it is "certain" that the North is behind the attack because the signal can be traced to its exact source. "The North should immediately stop the attack, which clearly runs counter to the spirit and charter of the International Telecommunication Union," the official added.
"It's a clear violation of international law, but no penalty clauses are clearly defined for this kind of attack, so the government is reviewing what kind of sanctions it could impose," presidential spokeswoman Kim Hee-jung said.
Meanwhile, Minister of Public Administration and Security Maeng Hyung-kyu said a cyber attack on Friday was "seven times" as intense as a similar one two years ago but was dealt with swiftly before it did much damage. "The attack was launched on the websites of 40 government agencies on three occasions. A total of 77,000 zombie computers infected by seven file-sharing sites were used for the attack," he told government officials and Grand National Party leaders.
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And Annapolis stopped teaching celestial navigation because GPS rendered it obsolete.. ( exception: near North Korea).
In more honest times, this would have been deemed ‘an act of war’....
Shouldn’t jamming of aids to navigation like GPS be met with an air strike on the offending jamming station?
Never mind, I momentarily forgot that we don’t have a president we have a community organizer when we really need a leader with grit.
Considering out government buys “Armored” cars with door locks that pop open once the car is put in park (which is what happened in Mexico when the drug agent was killed), it will probably be beyond their imagination to figure out that the bad guys might jam GPS signals during combat. Hopefully the Norks will beat it into their heads, though.
“And Annapolis stopped teaching celestial navigation because GPS rendered it obsolete.. ( exception: near North Korea).”
I read this AFTER my post. LOL. What they also cannot seem to consider is that WE may shut off GPS, particularly if incoming (enemy) missiles are using it to zero in to their targets.
“We don't know what happened to cause it to go off course”. “It's as if it locked onto some unknown source of radio transmission with a mind of it's own”.
So would torpedoing a ship...
” So would torpedoing a ship... “
Or shelling an island village...
Like I said - “more honest times”....
North Korea has been jamming Global Positioning System signals in South Korea since last Friday, it emerged.
I don't know why we are all excited about North Korea is doing. The FCC has been ordered by the Zero administration to rule for a WiFi company/campaign contributor to block GPS signals. The collusion of the FCC and LightSquared is practically the same thing.
If the Obama Administration is effectively disabling GPS here in the US so that LightSquared can provide broadband to the feral community, why get so hypocritical over NK?
Are we not still at war with N. Korea?
As I recall, there is only an Armistice...
They can just switch over to the Galileo GPS system.
Oh never mind.
Solution:
Apply one AGM-88 HARM
Repeat as needed until condition is resolved.
The bigger issue is the stupid ruskis supplying the damn jammers to NK and the chia-pets probably not with enough smarts to know to turn em off when not needed.
If we could find a way to focus the cameljock mooselimbs more on the russians and let both those sub-human bunches fight to their collective deaths, would make the world a much better place without either.
The jamming is coming from Kaesong, which is is North Korea, but is loaded with South Koreans managing what is essentially Nork slave labor for South Korean business.
Every time the North pulls some stunt, the people in Kaesong are immediate hostages.
Most of them are not really turning profits.
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