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South Korea Deploys Killer Robot In DMZ

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction dept.

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.'"

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  1. Good by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the U.S./South Korea can deploy robots of our own and put less humans in harm's way. And rather than risk a major incident with every patrol, both sides can just sit back and play a glorified videogame. It's sure to beat what happens when the humans there interact.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Good by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Insightful

      One of the poorest countries on earth is a nuclear power with medium range ballistic missiles capable of devastating Japan and short range artillery capable of devastating S. Korea. This is a country that the US and S. Korea are still officially at war with, and they occasionally attack. I forgot to mention that it is run by a delusional god emperor known for kidnapping TV personalities from other nations for his own personal entertainment.

      Where is James Bond when you need him.

    2. Re:Good by ffreeloader · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If the USA would give the DPRK the peace treaty they've been wanting for years, it wouldn't be much of a problem. Of course, then we would have one fewer excuse to maintain a couple hundred military bases across the globe.

      Yeah, that's a great idea. Let's trust someone who will not only deny his own people basic human rights, but starves them to death by the millions as a matter of policy. Let's give him access to more military and financial assets as there's no possibility he will use them as he has used the assets he now possesses.

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      "while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
  2. Pictures? by slyrat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This would be a much better article if there were any sort of pictures of said robot. I'm more interested in what kind of construction / form it is in.

  3. North Korea was first by SloWave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    North Korea deployed robots a long time ago. They are called North Koreans.