North-Korean military started blocking GPS signals yesterday making ships and planes near west-Seoul lose their way (GPS helps find locations using space satellites)
South Koreas Joint Chiefs of Staff warned about nav-system problems in the west-sea area; they asked North Korea to stop this right now - saying theyll be responsible for whats happening
The tech-problem comes after other weird stuff from up north: since last summer theyve been doing different things to bug Seoul like:
- sending trash-filled balloons south
- testing new missiles
- messing with GPS signals
About 5 months ago nav-systems got real bad for like 4 days straight: lots of planes and boats couldnt find their way proper. South-Korean officials went to the UN about it; the International Civil Aviation group told North Korea to cut it out
The whole nav-blocking thing makes flying around Seoul super-tricky now - pilots gotta be extra careful (cause you never know when GPS might stop working). Plus with all them trash-balloons floating around its getting kinda messy up there in the sky