SEOUL: North Korea has slammed US President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defend plan as a “very harmful” risk that goals to weaponise area, state media reported on Tuesday (Could 27).
Pyongyang’s overseas ministry has issued a memorandum calling the system “a really harmful ‘threatening initiative’ geared toward threatening the strategic safety of the nuclear weapons states”, the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA) mentioned.
Trump introduced new particulars and preliminary funding for the missile defend system final week, calling it “crucial for the success and even survival of our nation”.
The initiative faces important technical and political challenges, based on analysts, and will come at a hefty price ticket.
The memorandum by nuclear-armed North Korea accused the US of being “hell-bent on the strikes to militarise outer area”, KCNA mentioned.
“The US plan for constructing a brand new missile defence system is the foundation explanation for sparking off world nuclear and area arms race by stimulating the safety issues of nuclear weapons states and turning the outer area into a possible nuclear battle discipline,” it added.
Washington – Seoul’s key safety ally – has lately ramped up joint navy workout routines and elevated the presence of strategic US belongings, similar to an plane provider and a nuclear-powered submarine, within the area to discourage the North.
Pyongyang has repeatedly declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear weapons state and routinely denounces joint US-South Korea drills as rehearsals for invasion.
