
South Korea ranked 10th in defense spending in 2014, according to an annual report. The report on the world’s top 15 defense-spending countries by Britain’s International Institute for Strategic Studies showed that Seoul’s defense expenditures amounted to $34.4 billion. The U.S. topped the list with defense spending of $581 billion, followed by China with $129.4 billion, Saudi Arabia with $80.8 billion, the U.K. with $61.8 billion, France with $53.1 billion and Japan with $47.7 billion.
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1. rank = (등급・등위・순위를) 매기다[평가하다]; (등급・등위・순위를) 차지하다
2. amount to ~ = (합계가) ~에 이르다[달하다]
3. top = 최고이다, 1위를 하다; (~보다 얼마만큼) 더 높다