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]
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    971 month ago

    So the US wants to become dead last in technology by allowing monopolies that have no reason to innovate and blocking any cooperation with nations who spend money on innovation and tech.

    Good luck in the future, it’s like Obama said about shortsightedness.

    • Echo Dot
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      71 month ago

      The entire world is going to have Fusion power and the US will still be burning coal.

      • Mak'
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        11 month ago

        That’s pretty much it. Trump—really, the folks who control him—is going to wall us off from the rest of the world, while the rest of the world continues moving forward. In power. In technology. In medicine.

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      1 month ago

      48.8% of us understand the damage that is being done and oppose it but are powerless to stop it because 49.8% of us are too dumb to know what is real and what is fake on the internet…

      Plus our elected Democrats in Congress are cooperating with this bullshit for some reason.

  • MushuChupacabra
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    881 month ago

    This actually makes sense.

    Donald Trump is on the same side as Vladimir Putin, who is friends with Kim Jong Un.

    Therefore, the enemies of North Korea are enemies of Donald Trump.

    • sunzu2
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      331 month ago

      That’s the only way any of trumps foreign policy makes sense.

      Our allies are being un allied before our eyes… At the end of the term, us will have no allies left

      • @[email protected]
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        181 month ago

        There will be no end of the term. Fascism doesn’t just step aside when it’s term ends.

        • sunzu2
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          91 month ago

          They are bahving like it and Democrats are letting them do it too… As if they are on the same team

          Hmm

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          No peaceful end of term, maybe. They might have to find out January 6th doesn’t just come once, and it doesn’t always have to be at the Capitol.

          • Echo Dot
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            Just wait until he goes back to Florida and then wall the state off.

            Kill two birds with one stone.

      • Balder
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        11 month ago

        Seems like the US and China will be good allies, judging by how things are going.

        • Echo Dot
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          Wasn’t he threatening China with tariffs all of about a week ago. Admittedly a week is a very long time in the head of Donald Trump, a man who can flip flop on policies within 20 minutes.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 month ago

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

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            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.

            • Echo Dot
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              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]
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                11 month ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              31 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

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                21 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 month ago

    I assume this is because the current administration can’t tell the Koreas apart on the map.

      • Diplomjodler
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        91 month ago

        Yep. Donnie wants to curry favour with his old buddy Kim Jong Un.

        • Echo Dot
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          21 month ago

          Which is really weird because I can’t imagine he has anything to offer Trump.

  • Justin
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    1 month ago

    Looks like Trump is sparking off a huge wave of nuclear proliferation. South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Ukraine, and Poland all looking like they might proliferate. DoE can’t reverse the damage Trump already did.

  • Echo Dot
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    181 month ago

    Not that it’s really needed, but if you ever needed even more evidence that Putin is in charge of the US, this is it.

  • Sunshine (she/her)
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    161 month ago

    Trump felt nervous that South Korea showed a way to force down a terrible president.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    I can see Trump going full fanboy on North Korea next. And punishing South Korea for no reason but to please Putin

  • venotic
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    31 month ago

    There goes another ally we could possibly lose because of this idiot.