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.'"

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[Drakkenmensch]

... when ED-209 orders you to drop your gun, make sure it doesn't land on something soft that cushions the sound, mmmmmkay?

Good

[elrous0]

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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[lennier1]

It's just a reaction to North Korea dropping hot chicks from the sky: http://gizmodo.com/5580656/global-alarm-north-korea-now-has-flying-traffic-girls

Re:Good

[molecular]

if the mythbusters could do it, so can north korea

Re:Good

[Sockatume]

Spoken like a true Canadian.

Re:Good

[Nadaka]

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.

Re:Good

[ffreeloader]

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.

Pictures?

[slyrat]

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.

Re:Pictures?

[alex-tokar]

Found this picture at Yahoo news reporting the same thing.

Techwin!

[gbjbaanb]

This is that you want to see - it shoots things near the end, the beginning is more a demo for the CnC GUI.

Re:I sure hope that's a misprint.

[cusco]

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.

The Brannigan Counterstrategy

[Ukab the Great]

Nice try, but the North Koreans will just send wave after wave of their own men at the killbots until they reached their pre-programmed kill limit of 999,999.

Re:The Brannigan Counterstrategy

[Sockatume]

640 kills should be enough for anybody.

I am going to hell now.

Re:The Brannigan Counterstrategy

[Bugamn]

I think he meant 640 KillBots.

I think they have it backwards

[dangitman]

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.

Wouldn't it make more sense to fire the guns and grenades if the operator does identify intruders?

"Hey, I don't see anybody around, FIRE THE GUNS!" and "Look, it's an intruder, CEASE FIRE!" doesn't make a lot of sense.

Re:I sure hope that's a misprint.

[AndersOSU]

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.

North Korea was first

[SloWave]

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

Re:I sure hope that's a misprint.

[theheadlessrabbit]

...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)