{
 "source": "Text: the book’s Chapter 14 as it stood in Solterra’s Cut 25b, before the R&D dollar range, the Scopus paper counts and the patent counts moved here in 25c. The height, life-expectancy and songbun figures are still in the printed chapter. Scopus (paper counts) and the international patent system (applications), as named in the book.",
 "sources": [
  "Text: the book’s Chapter 14 as it stood in Solterra’s Cut 25b, before the R&D dollar range, the Scopus paper counts and the patent counts moved here in 25c. The height, life-expectancy and songbun figures are still in the printed chapter.",
  "Scopus (paper counts) and the international patent system (applications), as named in the book."
 ],
 "extracted": "2026-09-26, moved out of src/app/korea-transect/page.tsx unchanged so the page and its download read one file",
 "tables": {
  "TRANSECT": [
   {
    "measure": "Research money",
    "south": "Samsung’s annual R&D budget alone: 24 to 26 billion dollars",
    "north": "Whole economy: Samsung’s R&D is roughly 75 to 85 percent of North Korea’s GDP",
    "book": "About four-fifths of North Korea’s entire economy"
   },
   {
    "measure": "Papers",
    "south": "80,000 to 90,000 peer-reviewed papers a year in Scopus-indexed journals",
    "north": "A few hundred in total, not per year, across the whole history of the database",
    "book": "Papers"
   },
   {
    "measure": "Patents",
    "south": "Roughly 240,000 applications in a single recent year, more than 20,000 through the international system",
    "north": "Almost none",
    "book": "Patents"
   },
   {
    "measure": "Bone",
    "south": "Taller",
    "north": "Average young man 3 to 8 centimeters shorter; in adolescent cohorts the gap stretches to 11",
    "book": "Centimeters of skeletal growth"
   },
   {
    "measure": "Life",
    "south": "Life expectancy twelve years longer",
    "north": "",
    "book": "Twelve years longer"
   },
   {
    "measure": "Caste",
    "south": "",
    "north": "Songbun sorts 28 percent of the population into a hereditary underclass",
    "book": "Twenty-eight percent"
   }
  ]
 }
}