Interference from N Korea

More than 250 flights in and out of South Korea have experienced GPS signal jamming since the weekend, with North Korea high on the list of suspects.

Similar jamming in the past was traced to the North, which last month breached UN Security Council resolutions with a failed long-range rocket launch.

None of the flights, including 11 operated by foreign airlines, was in danger, the transport ministry said yesterday.

“As it happened at the time of [military] drills in 2010 and 2011, we suspect North Korea was engaged in jamming signals,” a South Korean government official said.