North Korea has been busy for the past week, trying to jam the navigation signals going to civilian aircraft over South Korea, according to reports in South Korean media. Through Wednesday afternoon, the GPS satellite signals to more than 250 aircraft have been affected, the Chosun Ilbo reported, citing South Korea's Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs Ministry. Planes from Korean Air, Japan Airlines, FedEx, Cathay Pacific and Thai Airways have been affected, Bloomberg news reported, citing the… (news.blogs.cnn.com) More...
You are correct. We defintely have the wherewithal over there to do it, but as China has shown with the EU controversy, they wouldn't be too afraid to get into this fray. The only saving grace is that we are pretty much their#1 export market so they can't be too quick to pull the plug. Maybe they will just rein Jr. in.
Folks can talk about us allying with Israel all they want, but they ought to take a look at what the US has in South Korea. China is probably the force holing us back, but it will rach a point that if they can't rein in JR., the US will.
Sort of a familiar thing; the North Vietnamese did the same thing with TACAN units to throw off weapons delivery being done by our armed forces' bombing campaigns in the air war over the North and even South Vietnam. Pilots complained about bombing the !@#$%^& vegetable patches!
They flip us off as a matter of policy because they still resent the ass-kicking we gave them in the 50's. The Chinese had to pull their fat out of the fire then. The NK's are betting they will do it again.
They're like the baby of a large family trying to get attention from the others. Problem is, the method of getting attention sometimes gets you in trouble.
