According to state media, North Korean leader Kim Jung-gun oversaw the testing of suicide drones using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
KCNA State News Agency reported Thursday that Kim had inspected a new upgraded reconnaissance drone that could detect tactical targets and enemy activity on the land and sea.
“The field of unmanned equipment and artificial intelligence should be the highest priority and developed in the modernization of the military,” KCNA said, he cited.
Russia is offering arms to North Korea in exchange for Ukrainian troops. (Reuters: KCNA))
Suicide drones, also known as loire munitions, can occupy “loiter” or airspace until the target is visible and can collide with it with the payload.
Nuclearly armed North Korea has also officially announced its first-ever airborne early aircraft, the ability to improve its aging air defense system.
Photos published by state media show Kim climbing towards the door of a large aircraft with four engines and a radar dome mounted on the fuselage to see the aircraft on a low flyby.
Using commercial satellite imagery, analysts previously reported that North Korea is remodeling a Russian-made IL-76 cargo aircraft into an early warning role.
Russian help
Such aircraft will help strengthen existing land radar systems in the north, which can be restricted by the peninsula’s mountainous regions, London’s Institute for International Strategy said in a September report.
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“The ability of AEW aircraft to look down will mitigate some of the cluttered challenges on the terrain and ground, and return to track low-flying aircraft and cruise missiles.”
The report said.
Moscow had provided anti-aircraft missiles and unspecified air defense equipment to Pyongyang for IT to deploy its troops to support Russian war against Ukraine, South Korea’s national security adviser Shin Wong Sik said in November.
According to KCNA, Kim separately inspected newly developed equipment for reconnaissance, intelligence gatherings, electronic clogging and attack systems.
The photo shows that a fixed wing drone would turn to zero on a tank-shaped target before exploding with flames. Kim was seen walking alongside an aide who looked like a drone larger than the average fighter plane parked in a tarmac in the background.
The North Korean forces, which were unfolded during the Russian war against Ukraine, are believed to have been involved in drone warfare and gained valuable battlefield experience.
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