US Military Plane ****** Down By North Korean Electronic ******
A US military reconnaissance plane came under electronic ****** from North Korea and had to make an emergency landing during a major military exercise in March, a political aide said Friday.
The aide said the plane suffered disturbance to its GPS system due to jamming signals from the North's southwestern cities of Haeju and Kaesong as it was taking part in the annual US-South Korea drill, Key Resolve.
The incident was disclosed in a report that Seoul's defense ministry submitted to Ahn Kyu-baek of parliament's defense committee, the aide to Ahn said.
Spokesmen for the defense ministry and US ****** Korea declined to comment.
Jamming signals -- sent at intervals of five to 10 minutes on the afternoon of March 4 -- ****** the plane to make an emergency landing 45 minutes after it took off, the aide quoted the report as saying.
