Electronic Weapons: Smart Eyes That Never Sleep

March 4, 2018: South Korea is installing “intelligent surveillance cameras†along the DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) and other areas that are vulnerable to attack by North Korean commandos or stealthy infantry. In addition to deliberate attacks the cameras along the 243 kilometer long DMZ will make it easier to spot, especially at night, people trying sneak across the four kilometers wide DMZ. In the last decade there have been incidents of North Korean soldiers just walking across the DMZ at night and defecting. What was embarrassing was that these casual defectors were not spotted and in one case had to knock on the door at South Korean border station to find someone to accept his surrender. Earlier attempts to avoid this sort of thing using motion detectors failed because the DMZ has become something of a wildlife refuge with all sorts of four legged critters are out and about and don’t care if they set off a motion detector. The “intelligent surveillance cameras†were designed and tested to avoid this problem.
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