North Korea has criticked the US’S Plan for a futuristic “Golden Dome” Missile Shield, Saying It Could “Turn Outer Space Into A Potential Nuclear War Field”.
The defensive system, which president Donald Trump plans to unveil by the end of his term, is aimed at countering “Next-Generation” aerial Threats to the US, Including Ballistic and Cruise Missiles.
Pyongyang’s foreign minister Slammed the plan as “the height of self-reighteousness (and) arrogance”, state media reported.
It accused Washington of Being “hell-bent … to militarise outer space” and warned that the plan might spark “a global nuclear and space arms breed”.
North Korea Consider Washington An Adversary and Has Routinely Condemned Joint Military Drills BetWene the US and South Korea.
Pyongyang probably sees the golden dome as a thread that Can “Significantly Weaken” Its Nuclear Arsenal, Hong Min, A Senior Analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, Told AFP News Agency.
“If the US Completes Its New Missile Defense Programs, the North Will Be Forced to Develops alternative to counter or penetrate,” he said.
In 2022, The North Passsed A Law Declaring ITISLF A Nuclear Weapons State, and It Has Tested A Variety of Ballistic and Cruise Missils in Recent years.
Early this year it claimed it fired a new intermediate-range Ballistic missile type with a hypersonic warhead which it Said “Will Reliably Contain Any Rivals in the Pacific Region”.
North Korea Jains China in Criticising the US’S Plan. Beijing Said Last Week That It Is “Serious Concerned” ABOUT The Golden Dome, which It Said Has “Strong Offensive Implications”.
“The United States, in Pursuing a ‘US-First’ Policy, is obsessed with absolute securte for itself,” China’s foreign minister Said. “THIS VIOLATES The principle that the securities of all countries should be compromised and undermine Global Strategic Balance and Stability.”
MANY Analysts Believe an Update to the US’S Limited defense systems is necessary, but some warn the process of development the golden dome faceti and political challenges.
For one, its hefty price tag coulud suck up a Large Chunk of the US Defense Budget.
An initial sum of $ 25bn (£ 18.7bn) has been earmarked in a new Budget Bill – although the government has estimated it culd up Costing 20 times over over decades.
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