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

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    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.

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    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.

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      7 hours 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

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

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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.

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

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

          Hmm

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          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.

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

            Kill two birds with one stone.

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    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.

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

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        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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      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.

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    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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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              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