An extended North Korean operation to disrupt GPS signals along the inter-Korean border this month has underscored how easy it is to threaten economic activity and national security in an increasingly connected world, raising concerns about the DPRK’s capabilities and intentions for the peninsula.
Such attacks are nothing new. North Korea has allegedly been trying to export GPS jamming devices since at least 2008 and engaging in jamming operations that have disrupted GPS signals in South Korea since at least 2011.
An extended North Korean operation to disrupt GPS signals along the inter-Korean border this month has underscored how easy it is to threaten economic activity and national security in an increasingly connected world, raising concerns about the DPRK’s capabilities and intentions for the peninsula.
Such attacks are nothing new. North Korea has allegedly been trying to export GPS jamming devices since at least 2008 and engaging in jamming operations that have disrupted GPS signals in South Korea since at least 2011.
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