South Korea accused North Korea of ​​suppressing GPS signals on the border

South Korea accused North Korea of ​​suppressing GPS signals in border regions.

According to the South Korean military, North Korea's GPS signal manipulation operations were recorded in the area of ​​the western border city of Kaesong and the city of Haeju on November 8-9. These actions affected the traffic of dozens of civilian aircraft and several naval vessels. Other details are not reported. Seoul blamed Pyongyang for the fallout.

GPS outages at the border between the two countries highlight the vulnerability of South Korea's major Incheon International Airport, some analysts say. Incheon, located about 100 kilometers from North Korea, sees 56 million people and more than three and a half million tons of cargo pass through annually.

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South Korea says North Korea's efforts to suppress GPS from its western border regions intensified in late May. Then North Korea started launching garbage bags towards the South. Pyongyang said it was in response to South Korean activists sending leaflets calling for a fight against Kim Jong-un's regime, dollar bills and flash drives with South Korean movies and pop music banned in North Korea across the border.

In mid-October North Korea blew up road and railway sections connecting it with South Korea. The roads were recently reconstructed, in particular at the expense of the Seoul budget. They were seen as a symbol of possible cooperation and peaceful coexistence between the two countries, but recently relations between the two countries, which are still officially at war, have become strained again. North Korea has started strengthening the border again.