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Technology Is Leverage: What Korea Has and What It Must Protect

In memory chips and shipbuilding, Korea is for now a country the United States would find hard to replace, with conditions attached: 52% of world DRAM capacity is in Korea and 3% in the United States (2022), and the United States built 0.03% of the world's merchant ships in 2025. Of the 18 phrases describing what the United States would give Korea in the November 2025 documents, 4 were written in definite terms. The mechanisms for keeping this position have gaps in money and deadlines, and the report recommends comparing planned amounts with actual budgets every year.