North Korea has criticized the United States plan for a futuristic Golden Dome missile shieldSaying that he could “transform space into a potential nuclear field of war”.
The defense system, which President Donald Trump plans to unveil by the end of his mandate, aims to counter new generation “air threats to the United States, including ballistic and cruise missiles.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pyongyang criticized the plan as “the height of self -arrogance (and) arrogance”, reported the state media.
He accused Washington of being “in hell … on the militarization of space” and warned that the plan could trigger “a world race on nuclear and space weapons”.
North Korea considers Washington as an adversary and systematically condemned joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea.
Pyongyang probably considers the golden dome as a threat which can “considerably weaken” its nuclear arsenal, Hong Min, principal analyst at the Institute of National Unification of Korea, told the AFP news agency.
“If the United States is finishing its new anti-missile defense program, the North will be forced to develop alternative means to counter or penetrate it,” he said.
In 2022, the north adopted a law declaring itself A state of nuclear weaponsAnd he has tested a variety of ballistic and cruise missiles in recent years.
At the start of this year, he said he had fired A new ballistic missile in intermediate range Cut of a hypersonic warhead which, according to her, “will reliably contain all rivals in the Pacific region”.
North Korea joins China to criticize the United States plan. Beijing said last week that she was “seriously concerned” by the Golden Dome, who, according to him, had “strong offensive implications”.
“The United States, in the pursuit of a policy of” us-s-abord “, are obsessed with the search for absolute security for itself,” said the Chinese Foreign Ministry. “This violates the principle that the security of all countries should not be compromised and undermines global balance and strategic stability.”
Many analysts believe that an update of the limited defense systems of the United States is necessary, but some are warning the process of developing the golden dome could face technical and political challenges.
On the one hand, its high price could suck a large part of the American defense budget.
An initial sum of $ 25 billion (18.7 billion pounds Sterling) was reserved for a new budget bill – although the government estimated that it could end up causing 20 times more decades.
