Korea is chanting “We’re number two!” tonight as Samsung Thales, a Korean defense supply firm, is announcing the release of the second ever see through camera, the Mirae.

The millimeter wave camera, a camera capable of seeing through thin articles such as clothing but not through thick articles like walls, is generally used to look through clothing in search of explosives or concealed weapons, as well as for finding people in fogbanks or heavy smoke and for looking for people who may be hiding in tents.

Now, there’s plenty of worries here about a system like this, and most of them have been addressed by Samsung Thales.  For those of you worried about a sudden dose of radiation possibly giving you cancer like with X-rays, no trouble there–the Mirae is a receiver, not a sender.  We give off this radiation ourselves, so it’s not any real risk to us.

Plus, the Mirae is too low of resolution to show a naked human body, so don’t worry about this one becoming a voyeur’s dream tool…just yet, anyway.

The United States actually developed the first one of these, and they’re being put in use at airports all around the world to expedite security matters.