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North Korea has issued a disturbing statement on an ‘outer space nuclear war’ following the announcement of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome.
The secretive regime has spoken out to condemn the plans of the US president after it was revealed that a Golden Dome defense system is in the works.
Seemingly inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, Trump announced that the US would be getting its own version, vowing that this would knock all missiles out of the sky with the success rate being ‘very close to 100%’.
Trump went on to say: “Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they are launched from space, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland.”
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Constructing the Golden Dome is expected to cost somewhere between $175 billion to $540 billion and the president hopes that it will be operational before he leaves office in 2029.
However, North Korea has since described the plans as being a ‘threatening initiative’ rather than a defense measure, calling it ‘the largest arms buildup plan in history’.
In the memorandum, the nation went on to claim that the Golden Dome threatens the entire global security environment, adding that the US has been ‘hell-bent on the moves to militarize outer space’.
The statement continued: “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 outer space into a potential nuclear war field.”
North Korea has outright opposed what it calls ‘the United States’ criminal ambition to use outer space for hegemonic purposes’.
The nation added: “We will continue to exercise our sovereign right to defend our strategic security interests and ensure regional peace and security.”
This statement doesn’t seemed to have concerned Trump, who has said that he has settled on what the ‘architecture’ of the system will be, with officials from the Pentagon adding that the president was present with three different proposals for small, medium and large domes. It’s not yet clear which one Trump has selected.
General Michael Guetlein from the Space Force has been tasked with overseeing Trump’s Golden Dome, although Democrats have raised eyebrows at how Elon Musk’s SpaceX could end up being involved.
However, not everyone is concerned, with Senator Kevin Cramer saying: “The new autonomous space-age defence ecosystem is more about Silicon Valley than it is about ‘big metal'. So what’s exciting about this is it makes it available to everybody to participate, to compete.”
