In the memorandum, Pyongyang accuses the United States, according to KCNA, “to be wildly determined to militarize space”. The Ministry therefore described the US plan as “the main cause for the triggering of a global nuclear and space-based betting arms”. This would fuel the “security concerns of the nuclear weapons states” and the space “transformed into a potential nuclear war zone”.
US President Trump had presented further details about the project already announced in the election campaign last week in the White House. He described the “Golden Dome” as “very important for the success and even the survival of our country”. According to him, the defense sign will be able to intercept rockets in three years after completing his completion, “even if they are started from other sides of the world, and even if they are launched from space”.
Previously, China had already accused the US government to threaten the “worldwide strategic balance” with the defense shield. Beijing called up Trump to do without the project.
According to experts, the internationally largely isolated North Korea has nuclear weapons. In 2006 Pyongyang performed his first nuclear test. Because of its weapon programs, the communist-ruled country is occupied by a number of UN sanctions that were tightened in 2017 and are not limited in time.
Despite the sanctioning, North Korea continues its nuclear and rocket program – including with the support of China and Russia. The country also repeatedly violates the resolutions of the UN Security Council with rocket tests.
According to the South Korean researcher Hong Min from the Korea Institute for National Unification, Pyongyang’s violent reaction to Trump’s “Golden Dome” suggests that North Korea consider the planned US rocket sign “to significantly weaken the effectiveness of its nuclear weapons arsenal, including its intercontinental missiles.” When the United States completed its new rocket defense system, North Korea will be forced to develop new weapons “to penetrate or cross it,” he said.
The relationships between North and South Korea are at a low point. Even after the end of the Korean War in 1953, both countries are still formally in the state of war. The United States has stationed tens of thousands of soldiers in South Korea, including South Korea’s protection.
