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North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Hours after North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea in retaliation for ongoing U.S. join military drills with South Korea, they started jamming GPS navigation systems near its border with South Korea, affecting hundreds of fishing boats but not causing any immediate danger. There were no disruptions to drivers' satellite navigation system or air traffic, but warning messages were broadcast in affected areas warning ships not to rely on their GPS navigation. In a statement, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense said: "North Korea has been continuously disrupting GPS system since 7:30 pm [Thursday] and thereby interfering and hampering our military movements, which is threatening the safety of our people."
Send in the HAARP! Trump would do it!
The little dog that used to just go yap yap yap is now frothing at the mouth, too. Isn't it time to euthenize it?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Basically... Mass fear that people in and around Korea may have to learn how to read a map.
I wonder what is there to be gained by provoking them with militarily exercises?
People need to clean up their own shit. Who will save us if/when we will have a global dictatorship?
Why the "SLASHVERTISEMENT" today? At first I thought this was for April Fools, but now I'm not so sure.
How do you think a military that has never practised in large numbers would fair if attacked? That is why it is called a training exercise.
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You can't handle the truth.
AFAICS North Korea is best interpreted as a toddler who is indulging in tantrums to get attention. If that's the case, we have a problem. The normal toddler can be safely ignored while it goes on and on. However such a brat is not capable of doing any real damage. Whilst we may wish to assume that the NK leadership isn't suicidal, that's a hard call given just how nutty they seem to be. However it may be the best solution - just ignore them at a real level, although letting their latest threats get into the media so they don't feel totally ignored and so raise the stakes. But it could be worse - they could believe they will be rewarded in an afterlife for being destructive...
Sir! The radar, sir! It appears to be... jamsed!
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The English forced the Irish to wear green, so they wore it with pride.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Military grade GPSes are supposedly jam-proof. They use directional antennas that can detect terrestrial-based signals and notch them out of the satellite-based signals.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
After all, the reality is that legally the US and S. Korea could potentially attack N. Korea at any time under the Caroline doctrine or simply because they are actually still at war and do not have to go before the UN Security Council to get their blessing.
This is unlike Iraq, where everyone knew that the US was going to strike Iraq soon, because the US had to try to get the legal blessings of the UNSC.
And the rest of the world said, "So?"
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
NK will come to an end: either a whimper or a bang. The guaranteed part is that dear leader will be strung up with his testicles in his mouth.
Wait a minute! What did the sea do? If the US and South Korea hold some aircraft training is North Korea going to attack the sky in retaliation?
So what if they're jamming GPS communication. What if Russia was doing military "exercises" next to the American border.. often by "mistake" crossing into American territory.
Wouldn't America jam GPS? Who the fuck cares. When did North Korea kill anyone? How many lives have Western countries taken?
The West is just poking at North Korea constantly provoking and the only one who has done anything diplomatic is Dennis Rodman. Dennis fucking Rodman!!
I'd have a fucking hard look in the mirror and consider the consequences and loss of lives, and if it was worth it just to poke at a country who's isolation is not so much because it has closed itself as it has been cornered by the elite countries who are clearly smarter than everyone else. At least they think so and it must be right because they are after all smarter.
Can you find any book about psychology that wouldn't predict how North Korea reacts to being cornered by the rest of the World? Wouldn't you? Dennis Rodman is the only sane relation the world has given North Korea! WTF?
Neighborhood hooligans shot off a bottle rocket and tore down a street sign.
Guess which I'm more concerned about? Hint: They're not from that North Korea Necrocracy (no really, NK is technically ruled by a dead guy who's decedents can intercede on behalf of the citizens). Don't get me wrong, invisible magical sky zombies are terrifying, but only to morons (no offense, Christians).
Hopefully there not testing their missile to see how it will work after they screw with, or destroy GPS.
The DPRK will just continue to do whatever it wants and little Dear Leader will have a 40-year rule or more, depending on his personal health.
The US is butthurt and its president will say he's "gravely concerned with the situation" or something like that but well. You got what you deserved. Cry me a river!
Global positioning system system
I bet they say ATM machine too.
... China is waiting to invade North Korea ... and North Korea knows that
Right now all the missiles, all the bellicose from North Korea are aiming away from China, but China knows one day one of the North Korea missiles is going to launch towards China, probably with a dirty bomb attached on top
That's when all hell breaks loose
I'm still waiting for the sea to rise in retaliation (any day now).
TFA> "North Korea has been continuously disrupting GPS system since 7:30 pm [Thursday] and thereby interfering and hampering our military movements, which is threatening the safety of our people."
I'm always amazed at the military mindset: it's kinda like the rightmost Right but without regard for morals or even logic. Double standards? It's a must!
Not to defend those AH from NK, but "thereby interfering and hampering our military movements, which is threatening the safety of our people" manages to be 100% stupid in a single sentence: how do you think "your military movements" make NK people feel? So you can be threatening to them, but it's bad if they do something threatening to you?
Sometimes, some uttered phrases give me the impression the military don't get what society at large wants. Defending is vital, winning is great, but not having the fscking war in the first place is way more important, you morons!