SEOUL — North Korea's trash balloon campaign, missile launches and the emergence of GPS 'spoofing' have increased risks in South Korean airspace, aviation experts say, complicating airline operations as tensions rise between the rival nations.
North Korea’s "trash balloons" were carrying articles printed with Hello Kitty characters, badly worn clothing and soil containing traces of human faeces and parasites.SEOUL — North Korea's trash balloon campaign, missile launches and the emergence of GPS "spoofing" have increased risks in South Korean airspace, aviation experts say, complicating airline operations as tensions rise between the rival nations.
"Airspace safety is gradually deteriorating," OPSGROUP, a membership-based organisation that shares flight risk information, said in a June bulletin. "There are no official airspace warnings for South Korea, but the risk situation seems to be getting worse." The balloon flights have several times shut down operations at Incheon, the world's fifth-busiest international airport and an important cargo hub, about 40km from North Korea.
Militaries and other actors can broadcast signals that trick a GPS system into thinking it is somewhere it is not.
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