View of the North Korean city of Kaesong, across the demilitarized zone (DMZ), from the Ganghwa Peace Observatory on the South Korean island of Ganghwa, November 8, 2024. ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP The South Korean army said on Saturday, November 9, that North Korea had been carrying out a GPS signal jamming campaign since Friday that had affected several boats and dozens of civilian planes in South Korea. The military urged caution for South Korean civilian boats and planes traveling on and above the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean Peninsula. “We strongly urge North Korea to immediately stop its GPS provocations and warn it that it will be held responsible for any problems that result,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul continued in a statement. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers The presence of North Korean troops alongside Russia illustrates Pyongyang’s new global ambitions Read later GPS jamming consists of emitting unknown signals which saturate GPS receivers and make them unusable for navigation. South Korea has accused North Korea numerous times in recent years of practicing this type of nuisance. Missile test firings from both sides Since May, Pyongyang has also sent thousands of balloons carrying rubbish to South Korea. Some disrupted traffic at Incheon International Airport, located northwest of Seoul, about 40 kilometers from North Korea. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers Between the two Koreas, the balloon war is relaunched Read later These announcements come a few days after a test firing by Pyongyang of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) presented by the regime as the most advanced of his arsenal. The launch, days before the US presidential election on Tuesday, represented North Korea’s first weapons test since it was accused of sending troops to Russia to support its war effort in Ukraine. South Korea responded on Friday by firing a ballistic missile into the sea with the aim of showing its “strong determination” to respond to “any North Korean provocation”. Read also | North Korea fires short-range missiles towards the Sea of Japan Read later Le Monde with AFP Reuse this content
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