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This little robot you see now is responsible for finding explosives and removing them.

We wanted to introduce additional robots that could do dangerous things.

So, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, which is in charge of purchasing weapons, signed a contract with a private supplier, and it was confirmed as a result of our interviews that they illegally left the work they had to do.



Reporter Jo Ki-ho covered this information alone.



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This is an explosive detection robot that picks up explosives on the roof and dismantles bombs on behalf of people.



The Defense Acquisition Program Administration signed a contract with Company A in December 2018 to provide additional explosive detection robots to the military.



It is a project that costs 5.6 billion won in a budget of 11 units for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.



However, a year after signing the contract, a problem arose in January of this year.



It is from radiation-generating equipment mounted on robots.



To find hidden explosives, radiation had to be fired with this equipment, so it was necessary to obtain a license from the Nuclear Safety Commission, but who got it.



The Nuclear Safety Act stipulates that the user who uses the equipment, that is, each military unit, obtains a direct use permit.



This law is also applied to the military command, and each military commander is required to apply for permission directly to the original bill.



However, based on the purchase requisition written prior to the contract for supplying the robot, the Korean government requested that the company obtain a license for use on its behalf.



The company found out that this was illegal during the agency process and raised the issue to the KSA several times, but the KSA did not show willingness to resolve it.



[A company / radio agency official phone recording (last February): (It said that this (proxy) does not comply with the Nuclear Safety Act.) We did not do it by law, but made a contract based on the law. Each military is insisting that there is.]



I checked with the Nuclear Safety Committee.



[Nuclear Safety Committee official: (Can the supplier of (radiation equipment) to the military obtain a license for use instead?) The entity that actually uses it is required to obtain permission or report it.] The



radiation agency put illegal provisions into the contract terms and conditions. I put it.



It violates military orders and laws, but it turns out that both recently requested purchase requests from the company.



[Jun-Young Baek/Representative of robot supplier: Please obtain permission for radiation-related only, and insist that this procedure is not necessary if you contact the military.

From the standpoint of our company, the delivery will continue to be delayed.] When the



coverage started, the Bangsaeng Agency belatedly revealed that there was an error in the purchase contract.



They also admitted that the provision in question violated the Nuclear Safety Act.



The company that raised the issue previously had a conflict with the Radiation Agency over the radio frequency problem for use by the detection robot, but when it was notified of the cancellation of the contract from the Radiation Administration because the delivery date was over three months, it filed a lawsuit, claiming that the responsibility for the delivery delay lies with the Radiation Administration.



(Video coverage: Moonsan Bae, video editing: Seunghee Lee, VJ: Junho Kim, screen source: PIAP's robot YouTube video)