Eventually it intends to produce its own creations, but that accomplishment is a long way off.

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The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.

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No one is writing off South Korea, but there is still a long way to go before its corporations wind up as role models in business-school case studies.

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