GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: North Korea Nears Completion of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: ABC News

10March2011 9:37amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: North Korea appears to be protesting the joint U.S. and South Korean military maneuvers by jamming Global Positioning Devices in the south, which is a nuisance for cell phone and computers users -- but is a hint of the looming menace for the military.

Since March 4, Pyongyang has been trying to disrupt GPS receivers critical to South Korean military communications apparently in protest of the ongoing joint military training exercises between South Korean and U.S. forces. Strong jamming signals were sent intermittently every five to 10 minutes.

The scope of the damage has been minimal, putting some mobile phones and certain military equipment that use GPS signals on the fritz.

Large metropolitan areas including parts of Seoul, Incheon and Paju have been affected by the jamming, but "the situation is getting wrapped up, no severe damage has been reported for the last two days," Kyoungwoo Lee, deputy director of Korea Communications Commission, said.

The jamming, however, has raised questions about whether the Korean peninsula is bracing for new electronic warfare. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Envoys Discuss North Korea's Nuclear Program

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Defense News

25February2011 10:00pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON - South Korea's nuclear negotiations chief met with U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth on Feb. 24 to discuss Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program, officials said.

The program disclosed last November potentially gives the North a second way to make nuclear weapons, in addition to its plutonium stockpile and envoy Wi Sung-Lac's visit came a day after the North's main ally China blocked publication of a United Nations report criticizing the program.

Wi also held talks with Robert Einhorn, the U.S. State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, and with his U.S. counterpart Sung Kim, according to a spokesman.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Wi would hold talks Friday with Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt Campbell.

Prior to his departure, Wi told reporters his trip would focus on how to cope with the uranium program at the U.N. Security Council and consider ways to create the right conditions for resuming long-stalled six-party talks on the North's nuclear disarmament. (read full report)

"GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE" is an intelligence briefing presented by Griffith Colson Intelligence Service, and provided to the public for informative purposes only. All subject matter is credited to it's source of origin, and is not intended to represent original content authored by GCIS, it's partners or affiliates. All opinions presented are those of the author, and not necessarily those of GCIS or it's partners.