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US classifies South Korea as ‘sensitive country,’ limiting cooperation on advanced tech. (english.hani.co.kr)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know what other nations fall into this "sensitive" classification?

Edit: I did some googling myself and here's the list below. (The short version is: Russia and their allies, China and their allies, and broadly the middle east. Weirdly, also Taiwan)

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Algeria
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Armenia
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Azerbajan
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Belarus
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China (PRC)
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Cuba
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Georgia
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Hong Kong
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India
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Iran
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Iraq
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Israel
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Kazakhstan
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Korea (North)
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Kyrgyzstan
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Libya
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Macau
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Moldova
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Pakistan
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Russia
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Sudan
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Syria
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Taiwan
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Tajikistan
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Turkmenistan
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Ukraine
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Uzbekistan
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I realize that's a long list, I don't know, should I put that in a or code block or spoiler tag?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Israel is an even stranger member of the post than Taiwan IMO.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

Analysts read the decision as the US government sending a stern warning to counter the calls for independent nuclear armament that have recently been surfacing in South Korea.

Here's the real reason.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

What

This is just so, so dumb.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

It's obviously purposely done for that reason.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

This makes no sense. Aren't there like a billion us millitary bases there.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

That and if you remember he's been on calls with Putin for the last few weeks. Putin hired North Koreans to help invade Ukraine. NK and Russia were worried South Korea might assist in defending Ukraine. So naturally. Trump has to start scrutinizing Korea more

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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

Kill two birds with one stone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, this administration just prefers the northern one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

But the US has no need for fusion, all it needs is cheap coal through deregulation and prayers to god to put back the burnt coal! /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

The US is well behind in medicine already. Because of the for-profit health system hospitals aren't encouraged to try procedures that aren't covered by insurance companies, and insurance companies aren't incentivized to add new procedures to their coverage because they can't be bothered to review them.

It's the same issue with off-label prescription drugs, It's the drug isn't explicitly designed to treat a condition, it won't be prescribed even if it could help e.g. using antibiotics to treat cancer has proven to be surprisingly effective, but no hospital in the US will do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Democracy in South Korea > Democracy in USA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk, have you heard of chaebols? They basically run Korea.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unlike the US, which isn't run by gigantic monopolies at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That doesn't make it better
They're dynastic instead of shareholder owned
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] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 19 hours 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] 8 points 1 day ago

The number of countries that don't fit on the left is decreasing every day.