North Korea says that the American ‘Golden Dome’ ” Nuclear War in space ‘risks

Noord -Korea has criticized the US plan for a futuristic “Golden dome” rocket shieldsaying that “the space could change in a potential nuclear warfield”.

The defense system, which President Donald Trump intends to reveal towards the end of his term of office, is aimed at combating “next generation” air threats for the US, including ballist and cruise rockets.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pyongyang closed the plan as “the highlight of self -righteousness (s) arrogance,” state media reported.

The accused Washington of it “Hell-Bent … to militarize the space” and warned that the plan could cause “a global nuclear and space weapon weapon”.

Noord -Korea regards Washington as an opponent and has condemned jointly joint military exercises between the US and South Korea.

Pyongyang probably sees the Golden Dome as a threat that “considerably weakens his nuclear arsenal”, Hong Min, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP News Agency.

“If the US completes its new rocket defense program, the North will be forced to develop alternative means to prevent or penetrate it,” he said.

In 2022, the North approved a law that declared itself a nuclear weapon stateAnd it has tested various ballistic and cruise rockets in recent years.

At the beginning of this year it claimed that it was fired A new ballistic rocket from the intermediate range Stiped with a hypersonic core head that was said to “reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region”.

Noord -Korea joins China when criticizing the US plan. Beijing said last week that it is “seriously worried” about the Golden Dome, of which it said “strong offensive implications”.

“The United States are, in the pursuit of a ‘US-First’ policy, obsessed with the search for absolute safety for itself,” said the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “This violates the principle that the safety of all countries should not be endangered and undermines the worldwide strategic balance and stability.”

Many analysts believe that an update of the limited US defense systems is necessary, but some warn that the process of developing the Golden Dome could take on technical and political challenges.

Firstly, the hefty price tag could absorb a large part of the American defense budget.

A first sum of $ 25 billion (£ 18.7 billion) is reserved in a new budget account – although the government has estimated that it could cost 20 times more than decades.