South Korea has created the world’s first cloned canine plans to put duplicated dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs. From the International Herald Tribune:

The Korean Customs Service unveiled Thursday seven cloned Labrador retrievers being trained near Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. The dogs were born five to six months ago after being separately cloned from a skilled drug-sniffing canine in active service.

Due to the difficulties in finding dogs who are up to snuff for the critical jobs, officials said using clones could help reduce costs.

The cloning work was conducted by a team of Seoul National University scientists who in 2005 successfully created the world’s first known dog clone, an Afghan hound named Snuppy.

The irony is that they want to put a stop to the illegal drugs trade because narcotics make people do crazy things.