Reports: North Korea jamming South's air traffic navigation
A Korean Air jet makes a landing at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Wednesday.
May 3rd, 2012
12:26 PM ET

Reports: North Korea jamming South's air traffic navigation

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 Land Ministry.

The jamming began April 28, according to a report from Dong-A Ilbo.

The planes have been able to use other systems to keep on their courses, according to the reports.

The planes affected were either taking off or landing at Incheon or Gimpo international airports or flying over the central region of the country, according to the reports.

The jamming signals were coming from the Kaesong area of North Korea, Chosun Ilbo reported, citing a staffer at the Korea Communications Commission.

The jamming comes after North Korea threatened to initiate "special actions" aimed at destroying the South Korean president and his government.

North Korean armed forces will use "unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style" to carry out the actions, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a report.

It did not specify what those actions would involve.

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  1. John

    The jamming began April 28, according to a report from Dong-A Ilbo.
    The planes have been able to use other systems to keep on their courses, according to the reports.
    The planes affected were either taking off or landing at Incheon or Gimpo international airports or flying over the....
    The jamming signals were coming from the Kaesong area of North Korea, Chosun Ilbo reported, citing a...
    The jamming comes after North Korea threatened to initiate "special actions" aimed at...

    Now I wonder, where did this news reporter go to school for readability and journalism? lol

    May 3, 2012 at 4:44 pm | Report abuse |
  2. 11b2v1p

    and then........

    May 3, 2012 at 4:53 pm | Report abuse |
  3. James

    Starve North Korea until they beg to be friendly !

    May 3, 2012 at 4:55 pm | Report abuse |
    • tbag

      Send Romney to NK............He will fix those commies.......he will BUY NK, sell off the few good parts, then shove the rest into the Inchon Sea................

      May 3, 2012 at 6:57 pm | Report abuse |
  4. Bill (Louisiana)

    North Korea is doomed to be turned into a desert. Most countries have given up hope in Iran and Korea creating an unpeaceful environment to their neighbors. I am waiting for a US Airliner to go down because of their stupidity. The US military will send a positive response immediately.

    May 3, 2012 at 4:56 pm | Report abuse |
  5. Kansas Cowboy

    I really love the expression of "unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style". Was Kim Jong-un stroking a white, fluffy cat when he said it?

    May 3, 2012 at 4:57 pm | Report abuse |
    • no nothing

      We will keep doing this until S. Korea pays us $1,000,000.00 (pinky to mouth).

      May 3, 2012 at 5:01 pm | Report abuse |
    • Braybourne

      Why do we put up with this crap? Survival of the fittest. Just fly in there and take out the repressive regime and liberate the people. No more panty waist liberal prancing around. Do what is right and move on with right sizing this planet...

      May 3, 2012 at 9:24 pm | Report abuse |
  6. Claudia, Houston, Tx

    North Korea is just being a pesty child. This United States of America got some S...t to take care of any pesty child, all in time, just be patient. North Korea knows this and they just want to see.

    May 3, 2012 at 4:58 pm | Report abuse |
  7. no nothing

    If this not N. Korea asking for "it" I don't know what is.... Oh wait lets not forget the currency forgery that is already going on

    May 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm | Report abuse |
  8. ironfray

    Why do you sound like you're 12. Why would anyone flaunt their parents income around on a message board?

    May 3, 2012 at 5:32 pm | Report abuse |
  9. Ellen Claire Kowit

    Where is the United Nations in trying to help?

    May 3, 2012 at 5:36 pm | Report abuse |
    • Allan

      The United Nations is the most useless organization on this planet!

      May 3, 2012 at 7:47 pm | Report abuse |
  10. bobcat (in a hat) ©

    We now take control of your planes. Soon we take control of your brains too. Then everybody think North Korea be numbah one honcho. You wait. You see.

    May 3, 2012 at 6:04 pm | Report abuse |
    • PeanutButts

      They didnt took control of the planes, they only jammed the signals. But still your joke is funny.

      May 3, 2012 at 11:28 pm | Report abuse |
  11. JerseyJeff

    North Korea is so out of the loop they really thought that would make a difference... I bet they still call radar ASDIK.

    It really is the "Hermit Kingdom"

    May 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm | Report abuse |
  12. Magic

    That was probably more of an annoyance rather than a real problem for S. Korea. I guess the North has run out of "tricks." So, I guess Kim Jong eun is like Dr. Evil now, using seemingly ridiculous "methods" to annoy the world. He would be complete if he carried around a cat with him.

    May 3, 2012 at 8:35 pm | Report abuse |
  13. _ BOB MARLEY _

    ... They be Jammin', They'd like to Jam it to yoooou ...

    May 3, 2012 at 8:35 pm | Report abuse |
  14. Duke

    Somebody just drop a few big ones on these rulers, once the rulers are gone the people of NK will be free.

    May 3, 2012 at 9:12 pm | Report abuse |
  15. John Doughboy

    Amazing neighbors as nations, yet so little in common. In kindred kind with language and history of the distant past, but so far apart on everything else. Will they ever come together?? Probably not in my lifetime but perhaps long after the world's present population is no more to witness such.

    May 3, 2012 at 9:35 pm | Report abuse |
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