This

is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Amidst

heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and a major U.S. and South Korean

exercise, North Korea has upped the ante. 

I am not talking about its threats to use thermonuclear weapons to

attack our cities.  Unfortunately, such

apocalyptic warnings have been an ominous staple of the communist dictatorship

for many years, although its ability actually to carry them out is steadily

improving. 

North

Korea today got the attention of its neighbors and American forces assigned to

help protect them by jamming the Global Positioning System.   

This

is not the North’s first attack on a system that supports, in addition to

navigation, worldwide telecommunications and commerce, as well as U.S. military

operations.  The latest incident

underscores, however, the urgent need to make our indispensable GPS more

resilient against jamming and other threats.

This

is Frank Gaffney.