대테러이용수단으로서의 무인항공기ᆞ드론에 대한 법률적 개선방안

Abstract

The technology of today improved the tactics and techniques of terrorist attacks. Especially, drone is one of the emerging technologies which can enable terrorist group to conduct multiple and significant effects of their attacks. For decades, terrorist groups always have been sought to obtain techniques which produce lethal weapons to accomplish their causes and to continue their attacks and supports. As a result of it, several terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and ISIS, are equiped with armed drone which enable these groups to attack hard targets which has been hard to assess and attack. The reasons why terrorist groups seeking to acquire drone as a tool for terrorist attacks are followed; first, the operation carried by drone could result in mass destruction and great number of victims which can stir up a state of chaos and horror among the target states and countries. Second, using drone as a terrorist weapon allows the terrorists to have a better chance to evade national security system and increases the chance of success of terrorist attacks. Lastly, there are many advantages that attract terrorist groups to use drone as a terrorist weapon, including the cheap cost, accessability, and ease of operation of drone. However, there are still many barriers to encounter the risk posed by terrorist’drone attack. One of the barriers is the lack of security laws to support the development of counter drone program. Several airspace laws control the operation of unmanned aircraft prohibits research, test and development of counter unmanned aircraft system in many countries. South Korea is not an exception in terms of this problem. Therefore, the purpose of this current study have two folds: First, it aims to explores the current aircraft laws and regulations controling unmaned aircraft operation and defense system in South Korea. Second, it attempts to identify the better way to improve the current unmaned aircraft security laws, regulations and operational measurers in an comparison with the legal approaches and operational measures adopted in the United States.