The country’s military leadership believes the development of systems using AI technology is crucial to boosting the speed and efficiency of electronic warfare responses in wartime, a source told Daily NK
North Korea’s military recently created a new department tasked with boosting the use of AI technology for national defense, Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Daily NK source in the North Korean military said Thursday that the General Staff Department’s Combat Training Bureau “created a new subordinate department called the Electronic Warfare and AI Operation Command in late March, which has been filled with capable technical people in the national defense and military sectors.”
According to the source, the new department’s operational goal is to improve the nation’s arsenal of modernized electronic weaponry and bolster the military’s operational command capacity using AI technology.
Accordingly, the department is working on developing and adopting AI-based electronic warfare support systems in cooperation with the defense ministry’s General Bureau of Equipment, the source said.
In fact, the department is drawing up plans to construct an AI-based electronic warfare support system by developing programs to automate data analysis and operational planning by late October. The goal is to use the system to improve the military’s operational command capacity by enabling fast, accurate decisions during war.
The General Staff Department believes the development of systems using AI technology is crucial to boosting the speed and efficiency of electronic warfare responses in wartime, the source said.
The North Korean military’s move appears geared to the growing importance of electronic warfare in modern combat. Essentially, the military is creating a basis to maximize its combat command capacity by developing programs that apply the latest technology.
“The General Staff Department is emphasizing that the new department will play an important role in national defense,” the source said. “Internally, the department predicts that if the program development goes as planned, the operational and combat command organizations of some electronic warfare units could change before the start of winter training in December.”
Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.
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