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S. Korea, US to Hold Joint Drill Against N. Korea's GPS Attack

News2017-07-30
S. Korea, US to Hold Joint Drill Against N. Korea's GPS Attack

South Korea and the United States plan to hold a joint military drill next month against a possible North Korean jamming attack of GPS signals.

An Air Force official in Seoul said Sunday that during the annual joint military exercise Ulchi-Freedom Guardian next month, a South Korea-U.S. team will be formed at the Korean Air and Space Operations Center headquartered at the Osan Air Base to respond to various scenarios.

About 60 space experts from South Korea's Air Force and the U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) will join the team.

The two sides will reportedly hold an exercise to enhance their ability to swiftly locate and strike the origin of the North’s wartime GPS jamming attacks.

The practice was organized under judgment that it’s important to swiftly locate the origin of the North’s GPS attacks because South Korean military equipment containing commercial GPS systems could be paralyzed by the North’s GPS attacks.

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