Memorandum Issued by Institute for American Studies of DPRK Foreign Ministry

 

Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Institute for American Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK released a memorandum on May 26 to inform the international community that the U.S. establishment of a new missile defense system is a very dangerous "threatening initiative" aimed at threatening the strategic security of the nuclear weapons states regarded by the U.S. with hostility and facilitating the use of the offensive military muscle of the U.S. forces.

According to the memorandum, the U.S. initiative for the Golden Dome missile defense shield whose goal is to tightly defend North America from the ballistic missile, cruise missile and supersonic missile attack from its strategic adversaries is a typical product of "America first", the height of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice, and is a space nuclear war scenario supporting the U.S. strategy for uni-polar domination with the preemptive establishment of the space-based military infrastructure, not a "defensive measure" to cope with the "threat" from someone.

The memorandum disclosed the U.S. offensive weapon system aimed at the preemptive strike against sovereign states.

The U.S., which defined space as a future battlefield in its early years, has been hell-bent on the moves to militarize space, claiming that those who dominate space can win victory in the future war.

The Golden Dome initiative being advocated by the present U.S. administration is also an expression of another attempt to militarize space based on the past strategies for space domination and the epitome revealing the criminal past of the U.S. which plunged the whole world into the nightmare of a nuclear war outbreak.

Throughout history, the U.S. has justified its moves for space militarization, claiming that the perfect interception of nuclear missiles from its adversaries flying toward its mainland can be realized only by the introduction of the space-based interceptors. Under the pretext of defending its mainland, it has been hell-bent on building a missile defense system targeting independent sovereign states including the DPRK.

Clear is the reason why the U.S. is scheming to fix the so-called "threat" from sovereign states as a pretext for modernizing its missile defense system, persistently spinning out the time-worn sophism just like the guilty party filing the suit first.

It is to preemptively attain military superiority in an all-round way by justifying its hegemony-oriented moves for space arms buildup and accelerating space militarization behind the screen of "mainland defense" and to launch the military strike against its adversaries at will by relying on it. This is the military strategic goal pursued by the U.S. and the main goal of the Golden Dome initiative being prioritized by the present U.S. administration.

The memorandum pointed out the malignant factor that has heated the strategic arms race worldwide and accelerated the potential danger of a space war.

The U.S. initiative for building a new missile defense system is the root cause for sparking off global nuclear and space arms race by stimulating the security concerns of nuclear weapons states and turning space into a potential nuclear war field.

Shortly ago, a U.S. space company announced that the U.S. Space Force is planning the design of an Orbital Carrier called "space aircraft carrier" and will invest 60 million U.S. dollars in it.

The reality in which global concerns are growing about the fact that the advent of the "space aircraft carrier" will be a catalyst for aggravating military confrontation in space is a typical example supporting the catastrophic consequence to be entailed by the U.S. moves to militarize space.

Another example of the U.S. moves to militarize space is the development of the X-37B unmanned space plane being accelerated by the U.S. Space Force.

It is not fortuitous that many space experts comment that the threat posed by the X-37B to the world is not less than a nuclear weapon as the advent of the X-37B is an unpleasant factor reminiscent of the realistic possibility of space warfare that has only been mankind’s imagination.

The memorandum disclosed the U.S. military gamble of risking the security of its satellites.

Since 2016, the U.S. has staged all sorts of missile interception drill including missile alert drill, combined ballistic missile defense drill and naval missile defense drill by mobilizing Aegis destroyers and latest UAVs together with Japan and the ROK.

The U.S. set up a space force unit in the ROK in December 2022. It inaugurated the U.S. space force in Japan at the Yokoda U.S. Air Force Base in December 2024, and formally operated the real-time trilateral missile information sharing system among the U.S., Japan and ROK targeting the DPRK's missile launch in December 2023.

Clear is the aim sought by the U.S. in its persistent attempt to build an inter-connected missile defense system with Japan and the ROK.

Lurking behind it is an attempt to further intensify their military subjugation to the U.S. through the establishment of the inter-connected missile defense system with its satellite countries and to use the forces of its satellites for military operations of the U.S. forces in case of offensive actions against regional countries.

The above-said facts prove that the U.S. moves to build the inter-connected missile defense system are dangerous military gambling prompted by the outrageous and selfish intention of the suzerain state to use its satellites as cannon fodder and bullet shield for realizing its interests even by risking the security of its satellites.

The memorandum pointed out the means of offering profits to ensure constant boom of the U.S. munitions monopolies.

Today, the U.S. military expenditure on the space field are three times the cost of space development for non-military purpose, which corresponds to 95 percent of the space-related expenditure of all the countries in the world.

The present U.S. administration claims that the establishment of the Golden Dome missile defense shield will cost only 175 billion U.S. dollars, but the recent announcement of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office that the cost of building the space-based interceptor missile system will amount to 542 billion U.S. dollars at maximum suggests that the Golden Dome initiative is the largest arms buildup plan in history.

The global security environment, which is becoming uncertain due to the U.S. undisguised moves for space militarization, proves that the security of the state and the region can be reliably guaranteed only by the symmetry of matchless power capable of fully controlling not only the current challenges but also the coming challenges, the memorandum stressed.