US 'Golden Dome' could turn outer space into war zone, warns North Korea

Condemning US President Donald Trump's plan to build a "Golden Dome" missile shield, North Korea claimed that this is a "very dangerous threatening initiative."

 

A few days ago, Trump announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defence programme and said Gen. Michael Guetlein, who currently serves as the vice chief of space operations, will be responsible for overseeing Golden Dome's progress.

 

According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's ministry of foreign affairs came out with a memorandum, denouncing the programme, saying, "The US plan for building a new missile defense system is the root cause of sparking off a global nuclear and space arms race by stimulating the security concerns of nuclear weapons states and turning the outer space into a potential nuclear war field."

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The memorandum accused the US of trying to militarise the outer space. It is an outer space nuclear war scenario supporting the US strategy for unipolar domination with the preemptive establishment of the outer space-based military substructure, not a ‘defensive measure’ to cope with the ‘threat’ from someone, it further said.

 

The Institute for American Studies of North Korea's foreign ministry claimed that the plan is a " typical product of 'America first', the height of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice, and is an outer space nuclear war scenario."

 

Golden Dome is envisioned to include ground- and space-based capabilities that are able to detect and stop missiles at all four major stages of a potential attack: detecting and destroying them before a launch, intercepting them in their earliest stage of flight, stopping them midcourse in the air, or halting them in the final minutes as they descend toward a target.

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