[Exclusive] US classifies South Korea as ‘sensitive country,’ limiting cooperation on advanced tech
english.hani.co.kr
This is the first time in history that South Korea has received this classification by the US government

This is the first time in history that South Korea has received this classification by the US government

The US Department of Energy (DOE), which supervises US energy policy and duties relating to nuclear power research and development and military nuclear weapon programs, has classified South Korea as a “sensitive country” and established regulatory measures in line with this, the Hankyoreh confirmed in an investigation on Sunday.

Classification as a sensitive country means that exchange and cooperation in connection with US advanced technology areas such as nuclear power and artificial intelligence (AI) are heavily restricted. This is the first time in history that South Korea has received this classification by the US government.

  • @[email protected]English
    41•1 month ago

    Is it because their coup failed to take while the US is meekly capitulating to the stupids?

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 month ago
            1. That doesn’t make it better
            2. They’re dynastic instead of shareholder owned
            3. There are only a handful of them, so they have much more control

            The situation in the US isn’t great, but at least antitrust law enforcement usually fixes the worst of it… eventually.

            • @[email protected]English
              3•1 month ago

              There have been no major successful antitrust actions in the US since the 1980s breakup of Bell. Biden’s admin started a few, only for Elon to fire most of the people in the FTC, causing e.g. the case against Amazon to stall out

              • @[email protected]English
                2•1 month ago

                And S. Korea has mostly been threats, or attacks on foreign companies. There haven’t been any meaningful anti-trust actions in S. Korea either.

                At least the US is sort of fumbling along w/ anti-trust against Google. We’ll see how that plays out though.

            • Echo DotEnglish
              3•1 month ago

              at least antitrust law enforcement usually fixes the worst of it… eventually.

              I’ll agree when they finally break up Google. They’ve been saying this for years and as far as I’m aware they have made zero progress towards doing so.

              • @[email protected]English
                1•1 month ago

                Yup. They’ve actually laid out what they’re threatening, but we’ll see if the hammer actually falls this decade…