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The Institute for American Studies of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on May 26 issued a memorandum entitled “‘America first’ in missile defense field causes global strategic instability and imbalance of power” to inform the international community that the US establishment of a new missile defense system is a very dangerous "initiative" aimed at threatening the strategic security of the nuclear weapons states that the US regards with hostility and facilitating the use of the offensive military muscle of the US forces.

According to the memorandum, the US plan for the "Golden Dome" missile defense system setting it as a goal to heavily defend the North American Continent from the ballistic missile, cruise missile and supersonic missile attacks by its strategic enemy states is a typical product of "America first", the height of self-righteousness, arrogance and high-handed and arbitrary practice, and is an outer space nuclear war scenario supporting the US strategy for unipolar domination with the preemptive establishment of the space-based military substructure, not a "defensive measure" to cope with the "threat" from someone.

The memorandum disclosed the US offensive weapon system aimed at the preemptive strike at sovereign states.

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

The plan for "Golden Dome" being advocated by the present US administration is also the expression of another attempt to militarize space coming from the past strategies for dominating space and the epitome revealing the criminal past of the US which plunged the whole world into the nightmare of the outbreak of a nuclear war.

Down through history, the US has justified its moves for space militarization, arguing that the perfect interception of nuclear missiles fired by its enemy states at its mainland can be realized only by the introduction of the space-based interception system. Under the pretext of defending its mainland, it has been hell-bent on building a missile defense system targeting the independent sovereign states including the DPRK.

Clear is the reason why the US is scheming to freeze 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 a 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 outer space militarization behind the screen of "mainland defence" and to launch the military strike at its enemy states at will by relying on it. This is the military strategic goal pursued by the US and the main goal of the "Golden Dome" project being prioritized by the present US administration.

The memorandum pointed out the malignant factor heating the strategic arms race worldwide and accelerating the potential danger of outer space war.

The US plan for building a new missile defense system is the root cause 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 US space company announced that the US Space Force is planning the design of a kind of orbit transporter called "space aircraft carrier" and will invest 60 million US dollars in it.

The reality in which the global concern over the fact that the advent of the "space aircraft carrier" will be a catalyst for aggravating military confrontation in space is growing is a typical example proving a catastrophic consequence to be entailed by the US moves to militarize outer space.

Another example of the US moves to militarize outer space is the development of the "X-37B" unmanned spacecraft being accelerated by the US Space Force.

It is not fortuitous that many space experts comment that the threat posed by the "X-37B" to the world is no less than nuke as the advent of the "X-37B" is an unpleasant factor reminiscent of the actual possibility of space warfare that has been considered by mankind as only imagination.

The memorandum disclosed the US’ military gambling of betting the security of its satellite countries.

Since 2016, the US, together with Japan and the ROK, has staged all sorts of missile interception drills including missile warning drill, combined ballistic missile defense drill and naval missile defense drill by mobilizing Aegis destroyers and latest drones.

The US set up a space force unit in the ROK in December 2022. It established the US space force in Japan at the Yokoda US Air Force Base in December 2024, and formally put into operation the real-time tripartite missile information sharing system among the US, Japan and ROK targeting the DPRK's missile launch, in December 2023.

Clear is the aim sought by the US in its persistent attempt to build an integrated missile defense system with Japan and the ROK.

Lurking behind it is an attempt to further intensify their military subjugation to the US through the establishment of the integrated missile defense system with the satellite countries and to use their forces in the military operations of the US forces in case offensive actions against regional countries are launched.

The above-said facts prove that the US moves to build the integrated missile defense system are the dangerous military gambling prompted by the ignorant and selfish intention of the suzerain state to use its satellites as the cannon fodder and bullet shield for serving its interests even by betting their security.

The memorandum pointed to the means of offering profits for ensuring the constant boom of the US munitions monopolies.

Today, the US military expenditure for the space field is three times the spending for civil space development, which corresponds to 95 percent of the total space-related expenditure of all countries of the world.

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

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