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The Double Structure of Digital Sovereignty
Europe’s Departure from Palantir and the Chains of American Big Tech
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
This is a record of 2026, when European intelligence agencies and defense ministries began removing analytics tools from America’s Palantir. It covers the replacement decisions made by France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and the Netherlands Ministry of Defense; the incident in which US export controls severed an ally’s ac…
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Artificial Intelligence in Horticulture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across five chapters and ten sections, this book examines computer vision for crop diagnosis, harvesting robots and autonomous field systems, smart greenhouses and digital twins, precision irrigation and supply-chain quality control, high-throughput phenotyping, and predictive breeding.
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Artificial Intelligence in Food Crop Agriculture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across six chapters and eighteen sections, the book examines digital agricultural infrastructure, remote sensing, crop diagnosis, yield forecasting, precision irrigation, genomics, molecular breeding, agricultural robotics, climate-smart agriculture, and global food security.
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The Future of Forestry and Agroforestry
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows satellites, drones, LiDAR, digital twins, forest-specific language models, wildfire and pest forecasting, forestry robotics, agroforestry, timber traceability, and forest carbon markets.
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Smart Livestock Farming: AI Enters the Barn
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Sensors listen, cameras watch, and artificial intelligence helps farmers decide.
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows precision livestock farming from animal health and reproduction to robotic milking, virtual fencing, digital twins, methane reduction, welfare, and data ownership.
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Han Dong-hoon, Busan Buk-gu Gap: A Record of the 100 Days Before and After the Election (Mar. 26-Jul. 3, 2026)
Kim Kyung-jin
Table of Contents and 13 sections
From March 26 to July 3, 2026, this record follows the spring after expulsion, the Busan Buk-gu Gap by-election, victory as an independent, and the first bill submitted in the National Assembly.
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Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI in clinical care, hospitals, education, and research
AI in medical imaging, risk prediction, treatment planning, hospital operations, education, and research, with patient safety, privacy, and accountability.
[AI Library] Chapter 1. Birth of the Unmanned Aircraft: From Target Drones to Reconnaissance Drones
Chapter 1. Birth of the Unmanned Aircraft: From Target Drones to Reconnaissance Drones
The birth of unmanned aerial vehicles: From target planes to reconnaissance drones On a deck of the Royal Navy in 1935. Artillerymen look up at the sky. A small radio-controlled biplane is gliding through the clouds. Named DH.82B Queen Bee, this aircraft was born to be hit by artillery shells. It was a target for shooting training. There was no one in the cockpit. Only the hum of engines echoed through the sky, and some compared the sound to the flapping wings of drones. This is how the word ‘drone’ was born. The history of unmanned aerial vehicles began with sacrifice, not glory. The mission was to get shot down.
In order for anti-aircraft gunners to learn how to aim at moving targets, they needed something real to shoot at, and they couldn't shoot from decoys. So a machine that could fly without a pilot was created. A machine that is okay even if it does not return, a machine that no one will shed tears even if it falls. This was the first identity of the drone. When World War II broke out, the demand for target aircraft increased explosively. In the United States, a man named Reginald Denny began attaching radio control devices to model aircraft and supplying them to the military.
This small aircraft, called Radioplane OQ-2, became America's first mass-produced unmanned aerial vehicle. During the war, over 9,400 OQ-3 models were produced and flew over the skies of the Pacific and Europe. Of course, most of them were shot down during training and ended up in the sea or in the fields. When the war ended and the shadow of the Cold War covered the world, the fate of unmanned aerial vehicles began to change completely. The drone was no longer for training purposes. Finding out what the enemy is doing has become the key to survival.
At that time, reconnaissance planes flying over enemy territory had pilots on board, and if they were shot down, the pilot's life and a huge political crisis followed.
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Pilot Gary Powers was captured, and relations between the United States and the Soviet Union became ice cold. This incident raised a question for military strategists around the world. Is there a way to scout enemy territory without a pilot? The answer already existed. All I had to do was turn the target device upside down. All we had to do was make a flying machine come back alive after being shot down. The U.S. Air Force modified a jet-powered target aircraft called the Ryan Firebee for reconnaissance purposes.
Codenamed 'Lightning Bug', these aircraft flew thousands of secret missions during the Vietnam War. They flew over North Vietnam's dense anti-aircraft network, taking pictures, collecting electronic signals, and sometimes acting as decoys to deplete enemy missiles. The Lightning Bug flew along a pre-programmed route. Real-time control was impossible. The captured film could only be developed after the aircraft returned, and the information was always in the past tense. But just the fact that there was no pilot riding was revolutionary enough.
Even if it was shot down, a diplomatic crisis did not erupt, and it was not dragged into prisoner exchange negotiations. The era in which machines die for us has begun. The real breakthrough occurred in 1982 in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. The Israeli Air Force launched small drones 'Scout' and 'Mastiff' to neutralize the Syrian army's air defense network. These small propeller planes were undetectable to radar and, best of all, were capable of transmitting images in real time. Commanders could sit inside the container and watch the battlefield 'live'.
When the enemy's radar was turned on, the waiting fighter immediately launched an anti-radiation missile. 19 Syrian anti-aircraft missile bases were destroyed in just one day. This battle marked a decisive turning point in the history of unmanned aerial vehicles. The machine that started out as a target plane has now become the eyes of the battlefield. I was no longer flying to get hit. We flew to see, to remember and to convey. Shocked by Israel's success, the United States quickly imported the technology, which became the seed that would later lead to the Predator and Reaper. This is how the drone was born.
From bullet canister to battlefield observer. From expendable to strategic asset. From machines where no one cries when shot down, to precision equipment where billions of won disappear into the air when shot down. The simple idea of not having people in the sky began to change the face of war.
Kim Kyung-jin
Attorney · Former Member of the National Assembly · AI Policy Researcher
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