North Korea's new tech trick makes ships and planes lose their way near Seoul
North Korea started messing with GPS signals in Seoulʼs western area‚ making navigation hard for ships and planes. This comes after months of other provocations including trash-filled balloons
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
