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South Korea Deploys Killer Robot In DMZ
shikaisi writes "Not content with just killing people in computer games, South Korea has gone one better and is deploying remotely controlled sentry robots on the border with the north. According to the article 'If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.'"
This is that you want to see - it shoots things near the end, the beginning is more a demo for the CnC GUI.
Uh, it's South Korea that's deploying the robots. You think North Korea has the engineering capability to pull something like that off?
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
No, that would be standard rules of engagement for the DMZ. Wandering livestock is regularly shot there, and sometimes the shepherds that try to retrieve them.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
No, we'd have to be real idiots to not know the difference between a robot and a waldo. These are waldoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator), although they don't use a physical or mechanical linkage. Robots would need some autonomy (which these don't have). So I don't know what the "laws of waldoes" are, but they aren't Asimov's ones.
Found this picture at Yahoo news reporting the same thing.
There are all those things except the nuke drop (and the North may even be able to do that - but probably not). But you missed the most important part: tons and tons of mines, both anti-personnel and anti-armor.
depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
If the mission is to keep any North Korean from crossing the border, the apporach to "always fire, except if subject is identified as friendly" will yield better results than "only fire if subject is identified as enemy".
That's of course accepting the death of the odd sheep, shepherd or other friendly subject that fails to be identified correctly.
Just stay out of the DMZ!
...I'm surprised there aren't automated sentry guns, barb wire fencing, huge ditches, tall walls, flood lights, and a special "nuke" drop in case all shit hits the fan.
There are several of those things on the boarder.
On the South Korean side of the DMZ, I saw a very tall razor-wire fence, then a deep trench, then another large razor-wire fence on the other side of the trench. On every few fence poles their is either a floodlight, a camera, or a super sensitive microphone. Apparently, they can hear just about anything that moves on their side of the DMZ, then figure out the exact location from the delay between different microphones. Every 500 meters is a manned guard tower with a big-ass machine gun.
There is also a huge wall inside the DMZ, separating the two Koreas. SK says their isn't, but it is clearly visible from the North. (this knowledge is from a documentary video from another group of people, I refuse to go to the North myself, I do not want my dollars going to their government)
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Shouldn't that be 640,000 kills?
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
It doesn't really matter what the west thinks about communism - NK is a theocracy now, with a god-king at the top and a caste system below. They started replacing marxism with the artificial Chuche-religion (more weird than Scientology, and probably as evil) in the seventies.
The only chance for NK is IMHO a internal enlightenment in parts of the leading junta (the only people there who know that there is a different world outside, and probably don't believe in the Chuche crap they made up for the ordinary people). All the world can do is to offer the leaders a retirement without being killed; and an efficient, friendly madhouse for the deprogramming of the population.
which ... is what this story is about.