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.
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.
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
There will be no end of the term. Fascism doesn’t just step aside when it’s term ends.
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.
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.
Also, Korean EVs meet US safety standards and have a Tesla-killing build quality and price.
The entire world is going to have Fusion power and the US will still be burning coal.
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
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.
Trump is Enver Hoxha with bronzer and a bad haircut.
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.
Trump felt nervous that South Korea showed a way to force down a terrible president.
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
I remember reading that the NK troops were so poorly trained and so malnourished that most immediately died at the front lines, and the remaining few were moved away from the front to logistics support roles (unloading boxes of cabbages from trucks) because they were worthless.
I can see Trump going full fanboy on North Korea next. And punishing South Korea for no reason but to please Putin
And punishing South Korea for no reason but to please Putin
It’ll also please Musk. Hyundai and Kia EVs make Teslas look like the shoddy trash they are.
I assume this is because the current administration can’t tell the Koreas apart on the map.
No, this administration just prefers the northern one.
Yep. Donnie wants to curry favour with his old buddy Kim Jong Un.
He needs there to be at least one world leader whose clothing and hairstyle are as clownish as his own.
Which is really weird because I can’t imagine he has anything to offer Trump.
NK is a world-class center for money-laundering and crypto fraud.
What
This is just so, so dumb.
Is it because their coup failed to take while the US is meekly capitulating to the stupids?
Democracy in South Korea > Democracy in USA.
Idk, have you heard of chaebols? They basically run Korea.
Unlike the US, which isn’t run by gigantic monopolies at all
- 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.
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
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.
At least the US is sort of fumbling along w/ anti-trust against Google.
There’s no way Trump will allow that to continue. The EU’s cases against Google, on the other hand, just keep coming.
Just as zaibatsu run Japan.
Yeah, Japan is pretty messed up too.
The number of countries that don’t fit on the left is decreasing every day.
