North Korean Jamming Underscores GPS Vulnerability

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Amidst heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and a major U.S. and South Korean exercise, North Korea has upped the ante.  I am not talking about its threats to use thermonuclear weapons to attack our cities.  Unfortunately, such apocalyptic warnings have been an ominous staple of the communist dictatorship for many years, although its ability actually to carry them out is steadily improving. 

North Korea today got the attention of its neighbors and American forces assigned to help protect them by jamming the Global Positioning System.   

This is not the North’s first attack on a system that supports, in addition to navigation, worldwide telecommunications and commerce, as well as U.S. military operations.  The latest incident underscores, however, the urgent need to make our indispensable GPS more resilient against jamming and other threats.

This is Frank Gaffney.